Articles

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

Article: 30.11.11 The Meaning of Dignity A short essay written by Simon Duffy on the true meaning of dignity.
Article: 24.11.11 Implementing Self-Directed Support This short essay offers some thoughts about the lessons other countries might want to draw from the English experience…
Article: 07.11.11 Wolf Wolfensberger - A Tribute Wolf Wolfensberger, the father of normalisation died in February 2011. Nan Carle pays tribute to the man she describes…
Article: 07.11.11 Fear is Always a Choice - What Will You Choose? A thoughtful insight on how we might manage our emotional wellbeing in difficult times written by Nan Carle.
Article: 18.10.11 NHS Values & Personalisation This short essay describes how to face some of the fears raised about the application of personalisation within the…
Article: 06.07.11 The Key to Support Planning Liam Toner explains how support planning could become genuinely empowering rather than just another bureaucratic…
Article: 29.06.11 Cuts to UK Benefits Ben Baumberg of the LSE provides an overview of the cuts in UK benefits and how they target disabled people.
Article: 12.06.11 Revisiting Barclay Bob Rhodes and Ralph Broad argue that social work and social care should return to the thinking set out in the Barclay…
Article: 05.06.11 Commissioning for Health Improvement Brian Fisher describes a model developed in Lewisham which could shift healthcare away from institutional and…
Article: 27.05.11 Care and Support or a Fascist Plot? Norma Curran explains the roots of Training in Systematic Instruction (TSI) and the failure to focus on building…
Article: 22.05.11 Simplify the RAS Resource Allocation Systems (RAS) have become too complex. Barnsley and The Centre for Welfare Reform are exploring a…
Article: 10.05.11 Do's and Don'ts for a New Script This paper is a working document to help authorities 'rescript' their social work role - to make it more positive,…
Article: 01.05.11 Real Welfare Reform Real welfare reform is about designing a welfare state that ensures everyone gets the support they need to live good and…
Article: 03.04.11 Planning with Families Pippa Murray summarises the main things you need to do to help families plan for themselves and disabled family…
Article: 02.04.11 Cuts - Yes, Minister Geoff Tudor imagines the discussions that led to plans to cut mobility allowance for people inside residential care…
Article: 21.03.11 In Memory of Wolf Wolfensberger A man who probably did more to change the understandings and situations for disabled and vulnerable people and their…
Article: 15.03.11 Proactive Primary Care An example of how UK primary care can offer safer more supportive personalised care whilst saving money at the same…
Article: 14.03.11 How Can We Save the Big Society? Gabriel Chanan and Colin Miller argue that the Big Society project will fail unless it focuses on real community…
Article: 03.02.11 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities This is a powerful vision of the opportunities and support which should be available to disabled people and their…
Article: 03.02.11 Unfair Cuts Public expenditure cuts by the UK government will target disabled people, older people who need extra help, poor…
Article: 03.02.11 Unfair Cuts in Detail The current social care system in the UK is deeply unfair and needs reforming; however current efforts by Central…
Article: 02.02.11 Changes to Housing Funding Housing Options explains how current changes to the funding of housing will reduce housing mobility, home ownership…
Article: 01.02.11 Personalised Education Personalised education is a widely stated ambition, and some local leaders are making progress, but central systems…
Article: 10.01.11 Don't Monkey with People's Lives Carl Poll gets to the heart of why the relationship between professionals and citizens can often go so wrong - and what we…
Article: 06.01.11 Citizenship in a Decent Society Simon Duffy sets out the challenge that treating each other as citizenship sets to a society that aims to be decent
Article: 06.01.11 Connection Not Inclusion Carl Poll explains the subtle but important difference between connecting and including
Article: 08.11.10 Conditions to Work The debate about conditionality in work and the benefits system is confusing and this does not help us build systems…
Article: 07.11.10 Integration through Personalisation Only a model which examines the value and role of integration from the perspective of the citizen will begin to bring…
Article: 03.11.10 Avoid the Quantum Leap Terry Lynch explores how to avoid those desperate placements in residential care, unnecessary hospitalisation or…
Article: 01.11.10 Are Individual Budgets Really Mine? Simon Duffy argues that individual budgets are provided as additional income, which is provided to people in order…
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