Wikler held that the category of cognitive disability was socially constructed by the competence thresholds set for important social activities, such as signing a contract or voting in an election.
The competence-related threshold payments of up to £1,000 a year are to be kept for those who already get them but there should be a two-year freeze on new applications, it said.
The report recommends the suspension of bonuses for all chief officers and superintendents and the scrapping of both the £1,212 competence-related threshold payment and "discredited" special priority payments of up to £5,000.
Other key recommendations included the suspension of bonuses for all chief officers and superintendents and the scrapping of both the £1,212 competence-related threshold payment and "discredited" special priority payments of up to £5,000.
The package, which was proposed after a major review of police pay and conditions by Tom Winsor, the former rail regulator, also includes the phasing out of automatic "competence-related threshold payments" of £1,000 a year that have been criticised as "grab a grand" allowances.
A special bonus - known as a competence-related threshold payment (CRTP) - will also be phased out over the next three years.
Keep in mind the distinction between a threshold competence and a distinguishing one.
When item parameter estimates are to be used to define competence levels or thresholds for later use, for instance, item difficulties must be highly precise.
In both these cases, ordinary people used technologies of connection to help them steer their own affairs, not merely managing complex domains to a minimal threshold of competence, but outperforming the official bodies formally entrusted with their stewardship.
