'The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

Garthwaite, K.; Bambra, C.; Warren, J.

doi:10.1080/09687599.2012.758032

'The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

Garthwaite, K.; Bambra, C.; Warren, J.

Authors

K. Garthwaite

C. Bambra

Dr Jonathan Warren jonathan.warren@durham.ac.uk
Vice Principal

Abstract

This paper draws on qualitative research with Incapacity Benefit (IB) stakeholders in the North East of England, UK. Stakeholders’ experiences of working with long-term sickness benefits recipients reveal multiple barriers that both sick and disabled people, and themselves as practitioners, clearly face. Reflections on what ongoing welfare reform could mean for future practice for both stakeholders and recipients will be explored. The findings suggests that whilst stakeholders recognise the complex barriers faced by those receiving sickness benefits, a wider moral dialogue between ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ is being created and sustained as a result of negative stereotyping of sickness benefits recipients.

Citation

Garthwaite, K., Bambra, C., & Warren, J. (2013). 'The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients. Disability and Society, 28, 1104-1117. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012.758032

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Feb 13, 2013
Deposit Date	Feb 25, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Jun 23, 2014
Journal	Disability and Society
Print ISSN	0968-7599
Electronic ISSN	1360-0508
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	28
Pages	1104-1117
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012.758032
Keywords	Sickness benefits, Stakeholders, Welfare reform, ‘Undeserving’, Barriers, Stereotype.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Disability and Society on 13/02/2013, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09687599.2012.758032.