1st Edition
Disability, Citizenship and Community Care A Case for Welfare Rights?
By Kirstein Rummery
Copyright 2002
212 Pages
by
Routledge
This title was first published in 2002: A critical look at the experiences of disabled people in accessing and receiving community care in the UK. The author uses a framework of citizenship, encompassing civil and social rights, to ask difficult questions about the role the welfare state plays in preventing and promoting people's independence. The book discusses the relationship between... Read more
List of Figures and Tables, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 The Role of Assessments in Community Care for Disabled People in England from 1993, 2 Social Policy, Rights and Citizenship, 3 Community Care for Disabled People in the 1990s, 4 Managing Demand at the Frontline: Managerial, Bureaucratic and Professional Gatekeeping, 5 Negotiating Barriers in the Dark? Accessing Assessments, 6 Being a 'Competent Member' of the Community: Services and Social Participation, 7 Community Care Assessments in the 1990s: Citizenship Denied?, 8 Assessment and Care Management Policy and Practice in the New Millennium: Towards a New Framework of Citizenship?, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Kirstein Rummery
