Question

identify the change politics surrounding support service or services relating to disability that would have impacted the clients. describe the change can be identified and why it impacted the vlient

Answer 1

Most individuals within the group feel that illness is the responsibility of someone else. We do not accept that disability can affect their lives and give no consideration to the reality of living with disability or caring for a disabled person. We hang on to the idea, without firsthand knowledge, that at least things are different than they used to be. Individuals with disabilities have been locked up for several years — hidden in large institutions. Already many people with disabilities are locked out — closed off from houses, families, classrooms, workplaces, sports, and community groups. You consider yourself locked out of our way of life.

Persons with disabilities can be involved in the society but most persons do not have complete participation in it. Discrimination and exclusion are irritating aspects of everyday life. People in wheelchairs are unable to enter public services most people in the city take for granted, such as playgrounds, swimming pools, cinemas, restaurants , hotels and cafés. Kids with disabilities are removed from the local schools and kindergartens. Due to their illness eligible and skilled work applicants are refused. Individuals with mobility aids have trouble using public transport on a daily basis. Persons with different disabilities are unwilling and unable to access the supports, equipment and technologies that are necessary for their everyday functioning

In the past 30 years the general public feels not nothing has changed. And it's true that they made significant gains. Yet recent times wealth has not been spread fairly. Handicapped people feel neglected. The tales said in the submissions are distressing and heart-wrenching. Line by line, it tells of pain and desperation.

Nevertheless, there have also been stories of resilience, tremendous personal strength and determination. Individuals with disabilities and their families, friends and carers have shown their strength time and time again. Those were success stories. Many citizens displayed great bravery as they shared their stories in submissions and in public consultations.

Many people defined their lives as a constant fight — for support, for money, for basic necessities, for recognition. Again and again participants commented that to lead an ordinary life shouldn't take such extraordinary effort.

They experienced :

Social exclusion and discrimination

The most commonly addressed concerns in the submissions and workshops were a lack of social inclusion and the various obstacles to active community involvement faced by individuals with disabilities. More than half (56 per cent) of the submissions received described exclusion and negative social attitudes as critical issues. Persons with disabilities and their relatives , friends and carers recorded frequent incidents of discrimination, isolation, marginalization and disrespect. They indicated they had been handled as different at best. At worst they mentioned being the target of terror, bigotry and discrimination and witnessing exclusion and violence.

Lack of services and support

Disability programs are designed to offer the support they need to fully engage in daily and community life to individuals with disabilities and their families, friends and carers. More than half of the responses received during the consultation process (56 per cent) said resources and initiatives are serving as a obstacle to their involvement rather than as a facilitator. The system of disability care was described as fractured and dysfunctional, chronically underfunded and under-resourced, crisis-driven, battling a huge tide of unmet need. Products were either scarce or rare, cheap or of such low quality as to be of little benefit.

The need for a lifetime care and support scheme

A large number of submissions suggested that the structural changes needed to bring about positive improvement in the disability service and support network would be applied to the program's own funding. These submissions made clear that given recent commitments to resource development.

The employment experience of people with disabilities

The potential for meaningful jobs is important not just for the economic wellbeing of an individual but also for his or her physical and mental health, personal well-being and sense of identity. Sadly very few people with disabilities have access to meaningful work.

The education experience of people with disabilities

Education defines more than the economic future of a child — it is vital to the social and emotional growth of a child, to the creation of a sense of identity and of place in the world. Therefore it is of great concern that dissatisfaction with the education system was recorded by 29 per cent of the submissions. Many of the submissions suggested that the program had no ability to meet the needs of disabled students.

The social experience of disability

Social isolation has arisen as a significant concern facing disabled people. It has been estimated that 15 % of people with disabilities aged 15 to 59 (or 287,500) live alone, compared to 6.8% of people without disabilities. 2 For some disabled people years of loneliness and rejection have had a significant effect on self-esteem and self-worth.