Bringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy.
- Explores how reducing the level of UK benefit claiming among those with health limitations has been a priority for successive governments
- Argues that current policy fails to reflect the evidence that people on long-term disability benefits face a complex combination of barriers to work and social inclusion
- Demonstrates that there is a need for continuing inter-disciplinary research on the nature of the ‘disability benefits problem’ and the efficacy of current policy solutions and public services
List of Contributors vii Introduction: New Perspectives on Health,
Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market 1 Colin Lindsay, Bent Greve,
Ignazio Cabras, Nick Ellison and Stephen Kellett 1 Assessing the Evidence
Base on Health, Employability and the Labour Market Lessons for
Activation in the UK 5 Colin Lindsay, Bent Greve, Ignazio Cabras, Nick
Ellison and Stephen Kellett 2 Disability Benefits in an Age of Austerity
25 Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill 3 From Impairment to Incapacity
Educational Inequalities in Disabled People s Ability to Work 47 Ben
Baumberg 4 Keeping meself to meself How Social Networks Can
Influence Narratives of Stigma and Identity for Long-term Sickness Benefits
Recipients 65 Kayleigh Garthwaite 5 Measuring the Impacts of Health
Conditions on Work Incapacity Evidence from the British Household Panel
Survey 81 William Whittaker and Matt Sutton 6 The Influence of Presenting
Health Condition on Eventual Return to Work for Individuals Receiving
Health-Related Welfare Benefits 107 Fiona Purdie and Stephen Kellett 7 A
Review of Health-related Support Provision within the UK Work Programme
What s on the Menu? 127 Jenny Ceolta-Smith, Sarah Salway and Angela Mary
Tod 8 Supporting the UK s Workless An International Comparative
Perspective 151 Mike Danson, Ailsa McKay and Willie Sullivan Index 175
Colin Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde Business School, UK. Bent Greve is a Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark. Ignazio Cabras is a Reader in Economics, Business and Management at Newcastle Business School, UK. Nick Ellison is Professor and Head of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York, UK. Stephen Kellett is a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Sheffield, UK.
