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Informationen zum Autor Alan Roulstone is Professor of Applied Social Sciences (Disability Policy) at Northumbria University and Honorary Professor at Swansea University, UK. Alan is a disabled person who has written and researched extensively around disability policy and practice. Simon Prideaux is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Sociology & Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Simon has written extensively on policy issues and policy change, and has current critical interests in the impact of neoliberalist policies on disabled people. Klappentext Understanding disability policy explores the roles of social security, social support, poverty, socio-economic status, community safety, official discourses and spatial change in shaping disabled people's opportunities. Zusammenfassung Understanding disability policy explores the roles of social security! social support! poverty! socio-economic status! community safety! official discourses and spatial change in shaping disabled people's opportunities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Contextualising disability welfare policy; Cure! care and protect: the paternalist policy heritage; The rhetoric and reality of community care for disabled people; Aiming high enough? Disabled children and the mainstream lives; New Labour and clauses for conditionality: Activating disabled citizens; Supporting disabled adults: New paradigms or new paternalism?; Older disabled people: Choices and rights in old age?; Getting it right for all disabled people? The impact of disability policy on structured disadvantage; Out of the labyrinth? The disability benefits system unpacked; Coalition dreams! new conditionality and disability policy; Conclusions.
