Equalising Opportunities, Minimising Oppression: A Critical Review of Anti-discriminatory Policies in Health and Social Welfare

190 Pages·2002·0.87 MB·English

by  D. Tomlinson

Equalising Opportunities,
Minimising Oppression
Anti-RacistPractice(ARP),Anti-DiscriminatoryPractice(ADP),andAnti-
Oppressive Practice (AOP), form a trinity of concepts, nested into one
another, which have evolved in welfare services over the last fifteen years.
They tend to have developed as forms of practice panaceas and as a result
havebeensubject toboth unrealisticexpectations and,attimes, topolitical
ridicule. This book
. clarifies the distinctions between three key concepts – ARP, ADP and
AOP
. critically and constructively analyses the three approaches to practice
. reappraisestheirpotentialinthelightofemergingequalityissuesinthe
healthservice.
With contributions from leading teachers and practitioners in the field,
coveringallformsofequalopportunities:gender;ethnicity;disability;sexu-
ality and age-related discriminations, Equalising Opportunities, Minimising
Oppression provides students and practitioners in health and social care
withaclearoverviewofanareawherethereismuchconfusionandimperfect
understanding.
Dylan Ronald Tomlinson is an Educational Consultant. Winston Trew is a
consultantin urban regeneration and capacitybuilding.

Equalising Opportunities,
Minimising Oppression
A critical review of anti-discriminatory
policies in health and social welfare
Edited by Dylan Ronald Tomlinson
and Winston Trew
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Contents
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
THE EDITORS
1 From equal opportunities to anti-oppressive practice:
the historical and social context 5
DYLAN RONALD TOMLINSON
2 The campaign against anti-racism in social work:
racism where? You see it . . . you don’t 30
NAINA PATEL
3 Developing anti-discriminatory practice 41
NEIL THOMPSON
4 Changing agendas: moving beyond fixed identities in
anti-oppressive practice 56
LENA DOMINELLI
5 The political challenge of anti-racism in social care
and health 72
GURNAM SINGH
6 Managing diversity and countering discrimination in
health services 82
RABBI JULIA NEUBERGER AND NAAZ COKER
vi Contents
7 Frameworks for anti-discriminatory strategies in the
health service 98
UDUAK ARCHIBONG
8 Disability and oppression: changing theories and practices 117
GEOFFREY MERCER
9 Anti-discrimination, work and mental health 134
JAN WALLCRAFT
10 The significance of anti-discriminatory practice:
non-discriminatory discrimination and social advocacy 149
DYLAN RONALD TOMLINSON
11 Making a difference? From anti-racist to anti-oppressive
practice in social work education 160
WINSTON TREW
Author index 173
Subject index 177
Contributors
UduakArchibong,Ph.D.isSeniorLecturerintheSchoolofHealthStudiesat
theUniversityofBradford.Hermainareasofworkconcernthedevelop-
ment of methods to enhance levels of cross-cultural competence among
health service practitioners, and she provides a ‘Managing Diversity’
training and consultation for both staff and students in academic and
health care arenas.
NaazCokerisDirectorofRaceandDiversity/EducationandLeadershipat
theKing’sFundandChairoftheBritishRefugeeCouncil.Shehasdevel-
oped particular expertise in the area of health and diversity, drawing on
many years’ experience of clinical and general management roles in the
NHS; she iseditor ofRacism and Medicine (2001, King’sFund).
Lena Dominelli, Ph.D. is Professor of Social Work at the University of
Southampton and President of the International Association of Schools
ofSocialWork.Sheisworkingonthedevelopmentofaholisticapproach
toanti-oppressivepracticeandistheauthoroftheforthcomingPalgrave
text Anti-Oppressive Practice: From Oppressive to Empowering Social
Work.
GeoffreyMercer,Ph.D.isSeniorLecturerinSociologyattheUniversityof
Leeds Centre for Disability Studies. He has a particular interest in the
growth of ‘independent living’ and the disabled people’s movement,
which are the subjects of his current research, and is the co-author, with
Colin Barnes and Tom Shakespeare, of Exploring Disability (1999,
Polity Press).
RabbiJuliaNeubergerisChiefExecutiveoftheKing’sFundandhasexten-
sive health service experience in the management of diversity issues. She
has taken a particular interest in advocacy for the health and welfare of
minority ethnic groups in the UK, and has recently established a range
ofprojects atthe King’s Fund which reflect that concern.
viii Contributors
NainaPatel,OBEistheDirectorandfounderofPRIAE,thePolicyResearch
InstituteonAgeingandEthnicity,establishedin1998asthefirstbodyof
its kind in Europe. The author of many social work texts, most recently
contributing to Beyond Racial Divides – Ethnicities in Social Work Prac-
tice (2001, Routledge), Naina has also produced films about race and
equal opportunities.
Gurnam Singh is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Coventry University
where he is a founder member of the Centre for Social Justice. He is a
contributor to the Routledge (1998) book Social Work with Minorities:
AEuropeanPerspective,andiscurrentlycompletinghisPhDatWarwick
University on the subject of ‘Anti-racist Social Work and Post-
modernity’.
NeilThompson,Ph.D.isaDirectorofAvenueConsultingLtd(www.avenue
consulting.co.uk) and is Visiting Professor in Social Work at the
University of Liverpool. He has worked with many organisations in
addressing diversity and discrimination issues and is the author of Anti-
DiscriminatoryPractice (2001, Palgrave) nowin its third edition.
Dylan Ronald Tomlinson, Ph.D. is an Educational Consultant. His current
interestsareinpersonalandstaffdevelopmentandheundertakesresearch
in a range of health and social services contexts. He is joint editor,
with Kevin Allen, of Crisis Services and Hospital Crises (1999, Ashgate
Publishing).
WinstowTrewisCo-Director,withDylanTomlinson,ofT&TConsultants
(www.tandtconsultants.co.uk) and his current research interests are in
urbanregeneration,capacitybuildingandsocialinclusion.Hehasexten-
sive experience as a course director, trainer and educator, gained in a
variety of higher education settings, where he has specialised in teaching
social theory and policy studies.
Jan Wallcraft is a Research Associate at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental
Health Services Development and is a user/survivor of psychiatric
services. She is a long-time campaigner for, and writer on, alternatives
to psychiatric hospital treatment, is a contributor to Asylum in the Com-
munity(1996,Routledge),andisundertakingaPh.D.onusers’experience
ofcrises.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Mohan Luthra, of the National Institute for Ethnic Studies in
HealthandSocialPolicy(NIESH),andtoWaqarAhmad,oftheUniversity
ofLeeds,whokindlychaireddebatesonanti-discriminatorypracticethatthe
editorsorganisedduring1999and2000.ThanksalsotoGeoffreyMercerof
the University of Leeds for his patient help in facilitating the meetings at
which these debates took place.