Working futures?: Disabled people, policy and social inclusion

✍ Scribed by Alan Roulstone, Colin Barnes

Publisher: The Policy Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 369
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Disability benefits remain the largest single form of spending in the British government's social welfare budget. Working Futures looks at the current strengths and weaknesses of disability and employment policy in the UK. It assesses whether the policy reduces or reinforces barriers to paid employment for disabled people. Bringing together a wide range of policy insights to bear on the question of disabled peoples working futures, this book includes analysis of recent policy initiatives as diverse as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Draft Disability Bill, the benefits system, New Deal for Disabled People, job retention policy, comparative disability policy, the role of the voluntary sector, and 'new policies for a new workplace'.

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