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Citizen Network members share ideas, stories and writings on how to advance citizenship for real.

Article: 18.03.25 Neighbourhoods of Care During the Fearless Cities South Yorkshire Summit hundreds of people met to consider how we can transform care.
Article: 17.03.25 Developing a Self-Directed Support Strategy With the right approach councils can achieve better outcomes and reduced costs.
Article: 14.03.25 Independence for People with Complex Needs Communication between people, carers and professionals is the key to independent living.
Article: 06.03.25 Fixing Social Care Funding More money will help, but it is not enough, the whole social care system needs to change.
Article: 05.03.25 Democracy as Human Connections At the heart of democracy must be the neighbourliness which connects and builds trust.
Article: 05.03.25 One Size Does Not Fit All - CQC Inflexibility The registration process for care does not promote good quality personalised support
Article: 17.02.25 Personal Budgets and Homelessness Greater Change are using personal budgets and individual support to help people overcome homelessness.
Article: 14.02.25 Hybrid Direct Payment Support Services This article explores how councils can benefit from a hybrid approach to direct payments.
Article: 14.02.25 Outsourcing Direct Payment Support Services This article examines the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing direct payment support services.
Article: 14.02.25 Insourcing Direct Payment Support Services This article explores the benefits and drawbacks of insourcing direct payment support services.
Article: 23.01.25 Coalville Certainly CAN Coalville CAN is showing how local people can take back control of their community spaces and inspiring local pride.
Article: 09.01.25 Communitarian Consensus-Building There are many different ways we can work together to make democratic decisions that everyone can support.
Article: 07.01.25 Changing the Narrative is Key Not only does the system keep using confusing jargon to describe things it also keeps changing the jargon.
Article: 03.12.24 Individual Service Funds Explainer The basic building blocks of offering personalised support with ISFs and what it means in practice.
Article: 02.12.24 Multilevel Citizenship Grassroot activists and governments need each other and we need to integrate different kinds of decision-making.
Article: 19.11.24 Delivering Sustainable Savings and Efficiencies in Social Care Individual Service Funds (ISFs) offer citizens the autonomy to control their care budgets directly.
Article: 12.11.24 Celebrating the Success of Mi Casa The final conference of Plena inclusión's Mi Casa project marked an important step forward for human rights in Spain.
Article: 09.10.24 Citizen Democracy: Learning from North West Together We Can NWTWC promoted local and regional based learning to improve lives and create sustainable communities.
Article: 10.09.24 Learning for Democracy Learning how to play our part in democracy is a basic skill that needs to be learned by everyone.
Article: 09.09.24 Citizen Participation in Africa Democracy in Africa is under threat but emerging innovations improve accountability and participation.
Article: 03.09.24 Our Vanishing Communities of Health A conversation about the growing depersonalisation of health and care and the dangers this poses.
Article: 02.09.24 Engaging the Marginalised How do we reach people who are rarely heard and encourage them to engage in citizen democracy?
Article: 25.07.24 Democratising Education It will take big changes in how we do education if we are going to support people to value democratic principles.
Article: 24.07.24 Developing Neighbourhood Care in South Yorkshire Leaders in South Yorkshire gathered together to begin developing a neighbourhood care strategy.
Article: 23.07.24 A Digital Approach to Person-Centred Planning Digital technology is opening up new ways in which people can develop their own person centred plan.
Article: 04.07.24 Open Letter on Neighbourhood Democracy A call for a deeper democracy that engages everyone as citizens in their neighbourhoods and beyond.
Article: 24.06.24 Civic Dialogues and Citizen Democracy We need to help people make decisions together on a much more local level.
Article: 18.06.24 Heartificial Intelligence We need to teach our children to love, to feel and to recognise the needs of others.
Article: 17.06.24 A Visionary Future with Basic Income for Farmers Basic income for every farmer could help end poverty for farmers and better protect nature.
Article: 14.06.24 Neighborocracy It is possible to do democracy very differently and to make sure everyone is involved.
Article: 10.06.24 All Hail Citizenship! The keys to citizenship can help improve services for people with disabilities in many ways.
Article: 06.06.24 Grassroots Manifesto for Sustainability Policies to help us take care of the planet, support wildlife and better farming.
Article: 21.05.24 Defining Our Neighbourhoods Identifying our neighbourhoods is important because it helps citizens to share the work of taking care.
Article: 20.05.24 Citizen Armies Citizen Armies led by people with a learning disability will make inclusion in our communities work.
Article: 09.05.24 Isn't Language Funny! We need to be careful about the language we choose to use in health and social care.
Article: 08.05.24 Creating a Life in Community Sofia Reyes leads the Mi Casa project in Spain which is a major development in deinstitutionalisation.
Article: 23.04.24 Deinstitutionalisation: A View from Spain Plena inclusión's project Mi Casa is part of an ambitious Spanish strategy for deinstitutionalisation.
Article: 03.04.24 The Creation of a Global Newspaper The theme of the first edition of Citizen Network News is public spaces, order your copy now.
Article: 15.03.24 Making Friends A simple greeting generates a story of community between neighbours with common interests.
Article: 10.03.24 Supporting People with Individual Service Funds Darwin Care support people with learning disabilities and autism in Dorset and use ISFs.
Article: 08.03.24 Humanity and the Planet Citizen Democracy is essential for tackling the urgent problems of the planet.
Article: 07.03.24 Democratic Healthcare The NHS and other public services need to be accountable to citizens and communities.
Article: 06.03.24 Democracy and Misinformation Misinformation in politics is extremely damaging to democracy, we should focus on practices to curtail it.
Article: 05.03.24 Our Democratic Infrastructure 9 areas for improvement in our democratic infrastructure.
Article: 13.02.24 Living Well with Dementia Liz Leach Murphy has written two guides to living well with Dementia and shares key findings from her research.
Article: 06.02.24 The Value of Grief We cannot truly value life unless we are prepared to accept the pain of losing someone.
Article: 05.02.24 The ‘Scarcity’ of Money Government can create the money we need in order to do the things that really matter.
Article: 29.01.24 Support in the Community Let's concentrate on the right place to live and the right support.
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