Understanding disability policy / Alan Roulstone and Simon Prideaux.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In an era of scarce social resources, the question of changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. This text locates disability policy into broader social policy and welfare policy writings, embracing a range of indicators of disabled people's welfare.

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UNDERSTANDING DISABILITY POLICY -- Contents -- Detailed contents -- List of boxes -- List of acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- A note on the terminology -- Introduction -- About the book: structure, signposting and study support -- 1. Contextualising disability welfare policy -- Poor Laws, paternalism and the �relief of disability� -- The factory system and the birth of the abled/disabled binary -- Eugenics, science of difference, segregation and IQ -- Beveridge, the postwar context and the New Jerusalem -- Origins of official community-based support

Beyond paternalism: early struggles for the Disabled People�s MovementMainstreaming and the resilience of segregation -- Wholesale shift to community care: the unlikely offspring of neoliberalism? -- New Deal for disabled people, age-based policies and new dualisms -- Self-directed support: choices, self-management or something in between? -- Globalisation and disability policy -- Conclusion -- 2. Cure, care and protect: the paternalist policy heritage -- Introduction -- Disability, paternalism and the impact of William Beveridge

Institutional discrimination and implementation of the Beveridge ReportCitizenship, disability and T.H. Marshall -- Moving towards inclusion in the community: the 1950s to 1970 -- Conclusion -- 3. The rhetoric and reality of community care for disabled people -- Imperatives to deinstitutionalisation -- Conclusion -- 4. Aiming high enough? Disabled children and mainstreamed lives -- Disabled children�s welfare policy -- Social care and health care support -- Educational policy -- Conclusion

5. New Labour and clauses for conditionality: activating disabled citizensIntroduction -- New Labour, conditionality and the primacy of paid work -- Paid work, social inclusion and social citizenship -- Disability and a return to laissez-faire policies? -- Conclusion -- 6. Supporting disabled adults: new paradigms or new paternalism? -- Modernised adult social care: personalisation and self-directed support -- Fair Access to Care Services and Putting people first: rhetoric and reality -- Individual budgets -- Crossing provider boundaries -- Changing day services

Conclusion7. Older disabled people: choices and rights in old age? -- Introduction -- The Royal Commission on Long-term �Care� -- Intermediate �care� and support -- Putting people first -- Direct payments, independent living and individual budgets -- Are we witnessing Fair Access to Care Services? -- Age-in-place and telecare -- Ambitious holism, realism or ineffectual rhetoric? -- Conclusion -- 8. Getting it right for all disabled people? The impact of disability policy on structured disadvantage

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