Larry
I don't think the government, charities and all other public bodies have any
idea of 'nothing about us, without us'. They state 'they-do', but I have not
heard of, or seen this is practice yet, have you, or anyone else seen any of
them go 'beyond-their-rhetoric', or is Alastair Campbell still working for
them as the 'spin-doctor'?
Should not disabled 'run and controlled' organisations not being in control
of running these employment projects?
Do you think that NAS Prospects 'Supported Employment' Service is a good
practice working model for supported employment for those witrh Autistic
Spectrum Disorders/Asperger Syndrome?
See links:-
http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=529&a=6304
http://www.nas.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=102&searchstr=Supported+Employment
Yours
Colin Revell, UK
>From: Larry Arnold <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Larry Arnold <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: "pathways to work" scheme in the UK
>Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:13:54 -0000
>
>I cannot but I do know from recent experience that job centres are no
>better equipped than they were five or six years ago, and that it is all
>rhetoric and no substance. Above all none of it is "person centred" the
>individual is not allowed to be an expert in there own condition, and
>essentially beneath all the veneer is the same punitive strategy of the
>Victorian workhouse so far as the mentality of the execution is concerned.
>
>Scapegoats and sacrificial lambs is what we are. I remember must be twenty
>years ago attending a conference on benefit reform hosted by DIG or the
>Disability Alliance, where the prinicipal of partial capacity benefits were
>mooted, that is a sliding scale of benefits which does not depend upon
>being either totally unable to work or otherwise.
>
>Whatever happened to that idea?
>
>The biggest barriers to employment are still the fact that some
>disabilities are less desirable than others and the fact that there is
>ample opportunity for employers to justify there decisions by other means
>when scarcity still rules in the job market and it is a buyers market.
>
>Bloody government ministers will never know what it means until they
>experience it.
>
>Larry
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of NV Acheson
> > Sent: 30 January 2006 14:46
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> > Subject: "pathways to work" scheme in the UK
> >
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > does anybody know of and can point me in the direction of any
> > independent evaluations of the government's "pathways to work"
> > pilot schemes, now to be rolled out as a central part of its
> > proposed reforms of incapacity benefit? True, the government is
> > very keen on them, but are they just blowing their own trumpet?
> >
> > thanks for any help.
> >
> > nick acheson
> > Dr Nick Acheson,
> > Research Fellow,
> > Centre for Voluntary Action Studies,
> > School of Policy Studies
> > University of Ulster
> > Tel +44 (0)28 9036 8803
> > Mob (0)7803 508307
> >
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