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Care or empowerment? a disability rights perspective — paper from the British Association, Annual Festival of Science, held at Birmingham in September 1996
Author(s)	Jenny Morris
Journal title	Social Policy and Administration, vol 31, no 1, March 1997
Pages	pp 54-60
Keywords	Social security benefits ; Community care ; Family care ; Physical disabilities ; Rights [elderly].
Annotation	This paper challenges the notion of "care", arguing that people who need support in their daily lives have been constructed as "dependent" people. Instead, the author argues, if we want to empower people we must learn from the Independent Living Movement, from the people who struggled against segregation and insisted that access to personal assistance over which they have control is a civil rights issue. The paper takes issue with Clare Ungerson's perspective on the new direct payment legislation. This legislation is an important stage in the achievements of a civil rights movement in any work which they develop on issues which are not of mere academic interest but which concern people's rights to choice and control in their lives. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-981119233 A
Classmark	JH: PA: P6:SJ: BN: IKR
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