Personal Independence Payments, welfare reform and the shrinking disability category

Roulstone, Alan

doi:10.1080/09687599.2015.1021759

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“…Wider societal changes include the positive -internet dating and better access (Löfgren-Mårtenson 2008) -and the negative -austerity and worsening social support (Roulstone 2015). In particular, greater openness towards sexuality diversity and sexual expression may open up more choices for disabled people -as the testimony of Jenny highlights (Hollomotz, 2013).…”

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The Sexual Politics of Disability, Twenty Years On

Shakespeare

Richardson

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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This paper follows up on qualitative interviews conducted with British disabled people in 1994-6, exploring how people's lives and relationships have changed over twenty years (n = 8). The themes include imagery and identity, access to relationships, social context and attitudes. Ageing brought greater self-acceptance, and also lower salience of impairment; but for some, it also brought co-morbid chronic health issues which made life more complicated. Respondents generally felt that social attitudes to disabled sexuality had not changed sufficiently, but also that UK austerity policies risked undermining hard-won independence and wellbeing.

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The Sexual Politics of Disability, Twenty Years On

Shakespeare

Richardson

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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“…This will make future cohorts of disabled people poorer and will arguably have a disproportionate effect, because of the greater costs faced by disabled people -estimated by Brawn (2014), for instance, to be £550 per month. Particularly in the context of the introduction of the new additional cost benefit (Personal Independence Payment), the situation of disabled people in the future will be even less eligible than those officially defined as unemployed (Cross 2013;Roulstone 2015).…”

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Employment and Support Allowance, the ‘summer budget’ and less eligible disabled people

Grover

2015

Disability & Society

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In the first UK budget by a Conservative Government for 18 years, £13 billion per annum savings in social security spending by 2020/21 were announced. Of these, 4.9% (£640 million per annum, and up to £900 million in the years after 2020) is to come from the withdrawal from April 2017 of the work-related component of the Employment and Support Allowance. This means that new claimants will be worse off by £29.05 per week (2015/16 figures) than would have been the case had the measure not been introduced. This brief commentary critically analyses this development as the extension of an ideological assault upon the out-of-work benefits for disabled people which has been gathering momentum for about a decade in the hope of forcing such people into competing for wage work in the open market.

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“…The biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability promulgated by Waddell and Aylward (2010), which provides much of the theoretical underpinning of post-2010 disability policy, is described by Shakespeare, Watson, and Alghaib (2017, 14) as 'conceptually and empirically invalid' with a 'barely concealed normative dimension of victim blaming' (15). Government policies have 'shrunk' the category of disability in the name of political expediency and ideological pursuits (Roulstone, 2015), and the social citizenship rights (Marshall, 1950) of disabled people have been undermined and replaced with a form of 'counterfeit citizenship' (Hughes, 2015).…”

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Disability, Rights and Vulnerability in British Parliamentary Debate

Odell¹

2018

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This paper examines discussion of disability and disabled people by Members of Parliament (MPs) in the UK House of Commons from 1979-2017. It examines general trends in the number of speeches mentioning disability, including the parties and MPs most likely to mention disability issues, and examines how disability is used in conjunction with two keywords: 'rights' and 'vulnerable'. It uses these keywords to explore two conceptions of how the state should engage with disability and disabled people: a paternalistic conception (which post-2010 has become more common) and a rights-based conception (which has been in decline since the 1990s). I conclude with a discussion about how this reflects the disability movement in the UK, and what it means for the future of disability politics, the welfare state and how disabled people themselves might view paternalistic government policies.

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Personal Independence Payments, welfare reform and the shrinking disability category

Cited by 69 publications

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The Sexual Politics of Disability, Twenty Years On

The Sexual Politics of Disability, Twenty Years On

Employment and Support Allowance, the ‘summer budget’ and less eligible disabled people

Disability, Rights and Vulnerability in British Parliamentary Debate

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