Community Care, May 23rd-29th 2002, p. 20-21
Discusses concerns raised by disability pressure groups about government proposals to merge the Disability Rights Commission with equality organisations for gender and race. There are fears that the promotion of rights for disabled people could be marginalised by issues with higher political priority or that exert greater social pressure.
Community Care, May 23rd-29th 2002, p. 34-35
Describes a cultural divide in the deaf community between people who sign and regard themselves as part of a linguistic minority group and those who can use hearing aids and/or lipread and who see their deafness as a medical condition.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002
By examining the role that community care policy and practice plays in shaping disabled people's citizenship, this book identifies the ways in which the welfare state can either support, or act as a barrier to disabled people's social participation.
C Evans and A Carmichael
York: York Publishing Services, 2002
Describes how a group of disabled people was established to review direct payments in Wiltshire using the statutory Best Value framework. Demonstrates how service users can play a more central role in designing and carrying out the review themselves.