A Life in the Day: Volume 3 Issue 3

Editorial

Bob Grove

Replicating Workschemes

Katy Malcolm, Matt Bourne, Ronnie Wilson

All too often creative projects are established by a charismatic worker and, despite winning golden opinions for their work, they remain essentially a jewel in their own locality…

Mental Health and Employment — A Joint Enterprise

Susan Scott‐Parker

For employers, like many members of the general public, mental illness is a scary subject — the more so that they don't know who to turn to if a member of staff starts to show…

Supporting Students at No Extra Cost: The Pathfinder Access To Education Project

Sara Meddings, Samantha Pardi

Building on ideas that have been discussed in recent issues of A life in the day, Sara Meddings and Samantha Pardi describe a small project which has not only enabled people to…

Targeting Employers

Employment Opportunities

Adam Pozner

In this issue we have profiles from four newly developing employment services — two are ‘winners’ in the New Deal for Disabled People — Innovative Programmes strand, one a…

‘On Our Own’ by Judi Chamberlin

Vivien Lindow, Peter Campbell

As a variation on our ‘Day in the life’ section we asked two well‐known user consultants, Viv Lindow and Peter Campbell, to write about a book that has changed each of their…

The TAP Programme in New York City — One Year On

Gerold Schwarz

Last summer we published an article about the work of INCube Inc. ‐ a consumer‐led consultancy in New York that helps former psychiatric patients create their own jobs in…

What We Can Learn From the TAP Programme

Liz Ruddle

A Tale from the Sharp End of the Benefit System

Jim

Jim describes the chaotic administration of Housing and Council Tax Benefit in wealthy South‐East England today. He doesn't detail his feelings and the impact on his aspiration to…