Waddington, L and Priestley, M orcid.org/0000-0002-7292-6115 (2020) A human rights approach to disability assessment. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. ISSN 2169-9763
Abstract
Disability assessments play a key role in welfare states but are increasingly contested, not least for their compatibility with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This paper draws on evidence of global governance and assessment practices in 34 European countries, the largest international study to date. The paper reflects on the model of disability in the CRPD and its implications for disability assessment, drawing on the work of the CRPD Committee. The paper also examines examples of promising practice in assessment in European countries and concludes by identifying elements of a CRPD-compatible approach. Disability assessments must be underpinned by both a social-contextual concept of disability and a human rights approach. Administrative attribution of disability status based on categorical diagnosis or individual functioning alone is incompatible with this approach. This approach challenges the historic individualization of disability assessments and the knowledge relationships underpinning them.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Social Policy Association. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
Keywords: | disability; needs assessment; welfare rights; human rights |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union VC/2015/0255 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Aug 2020 13:39 |
Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2021 21:44 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/ics.2020.21 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164671 |
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