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Links to relevant websites and organisations with an interest in disability, together with a specialist bibliography on mental health issues
Links Disabled for life?
A qualitative study of attitudes towards, and experiences of, disability in Britain. National Centre for Social Research, 2000
Links The Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Links Labour Force Survey
Links Monitoring the Disability Discrimination Act
1999, Department for Education & Employment
Links National Autistic Society
The National Autistic Society exists to champion the rights and interests of all people with autism, their website includes a section on employment covering: 'help with getting and keeping a job', 'tips for interviewing people with autism/ Asperger syndrome' and statistics on employment and barriers to employment for people with autism.
Links Disability Toolkits
This online resource, launching in mid-September 2005, aims to help UK academics, employers and students negotiate and organise work experience opportunities and field trips for students with disabilities. Disability Toolkits, conceived and developed at The University of Manchester, is an interactive, web-based service providing comprehensive information, advice and sources of support for students with disabilities, academics involved in work placements and prospective employers. The website is located at www.disabilitytoolkits.ac.uk, with a pilot version already online.
Links Employers' Forum on Disability
The Employers' Forum on Disability is an employers' organisation focused on the issue of disability in the workplace. It is funded and managed by employers. With over 375 members, the Forum represents organisations who employ over 20% of the UK workforce.

Mental health issues, a bibliography

This is a bibliography with a particular focus on mental health issues.

Resources related to Mental Health Issues

  • Butterworth, R and Dean, J (2000) Putting the missing rungs into the vocational ‘ladder’. A Life in the Day. Vol 4 Issue 1 Feb 2000.
  • James, Kathryn (2001) Prescribing Learning: A guide to good practice in learning and health. Leicester. NIACE
  • Mental Health Foundation (2002) Out at Work London Mental Health Foundation.
  • Mental Health Foundation (1998) Welfare to work: What works for people with mental health problems? MHF Briefing 19.
  • Read, J  and Baker,S (1996) Not just sticks and stones: A survey of the discrimination experienced by people with mental health problems. Mind: London
  • Sayce, L ( 2000) From Psychiatric Patient to Citizen Overcoming discrimination and social exclusion. Hampshire. Palgrave
  • Seebohm,P; Grove,B and Secker,J (2002) Working Towards Recovery London IAHSP.
  • Slaney, M (2001) So Learning can improve your health. Newscheck. July 2001.
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