Segregation And The United Kingdom s Policy And Practice

This assignment will define segregation and dependency in relation to the United Kingdom’s Policy and Practice. How arguments from activist have been put forward and if they have change over time, this assignment will identify any strengths, limitation and weaknesses and demonstrate how these can be improved, maintained or adapted to facilitate success in other areas of policy. Dependency means lack of independence or self-sufficiency, being abnormally tolerant and to depend on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming. A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country. Dependency is where a person is controlled by another, where they have emotional, physical or financial need for a thing, (Dictionary,†¦show more content†¦Models such as the religious model, the medical/genetic model and the social/human rights model have had a huge impact on the way people with impairments are treated within society. Out of all the models the main model is the medical model, this model ascended together with and was fully sustained by the advances in sciences and medicine. The power was given to the medical professions to order the lives of those with impairments, (BRAIN.HE, 2006). Before the twentieth century, social outlooks reflected the views of many that people with disabilities which viewed disabled people as unhealthy, flawed and abnormal. For many years, society as a whole treated disabled people as objects out of fear and pity. The predominant approach was that disabled individuals were incompetent of partaking in and contributing to society and that they must depend on welfare or charitable organizations, (Burtner, 2016). Towards the end of the 1800’s, institutions were built by the state and local organizational agencies to house people with developmental impairments. The institutions were commonly built on the borders of the city. Social attitudes adopted this segregating style of managing. Segregating from society stigmatizes people. (Burtner, 2016). In 1834, a new poor law was put in place, many people welcomed the law as they believed it would, help reduce the cost of caring for the poor, remove poor people off the streets and also encourage