Articles

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

Article: 13.10.21 Awed by the Human Spirit Recollections of the early days of deinstitutionalisation and the emergence of self-advocacy by one of its pioneers.
Article: 12.10.21 Transforming Communities Communities must be empowered to act for themselves and in partnership with public services and government.
Article: 11.10.21 Beyond Deinstitutionalisation Looking at the causes of institutionalisation can help us identify common goals in our efforts for social justice.
Article: 10.10.21 The Corruption of Social Care Reform Social Care is poorly understood that debates about how to improve or reform it are often empty of meaning.
Article: 29.09.21 IUCN World Conservation Congress The IUCN World Conservation Congress is the largest gathering of conservation expertise globally, CN Ambassadors…
Article: 15.09.21 Self-Advocacy History Before 1984 The People First movement leads the way in self-advocacy today, but there were also earlier developments which should…
Article: 14.09.21 Flourishing Neighbourhoods It's misleading to describe communities as 'left behind', we need to think how we will grow Neighbourhood Democracy.
Article: 01.09.21 Action for Responsible Management of Our Rivers ARMOUR, the remarkable story of saving rivers and building community across South Africa.
Article: 20.07.21 Redesigning the Benefits System with Young People in Mind Poverty for children in the UK is growing and its time for a revolutionary shift towards Universal Basic Income (UBI).
Article: 19.07.21 Our Care Home in Our Community We have lost sight of the true meaning of care and care homes are big business, cut off from our communities.
Article: 07.06.21 Trying Out Individual Service Funds (ISFs) Self Directed Futures' work with Bristol City Council commissioning team on their Individual Service Fund offer.
Article: 25.05.21 An Ode to the Citizen Spirit of Sheffield Sheffield has proud history of combining diverse peoples and communities into a greater whole, with a commitment to…
Article: 14.05.21 Improve Health by Growing Community Our health is damaged by isolation, inequality and powerlessness, so we must reconnect people by conscious community…
Article: 12.05.21 Disability Activism for the Environment Disabled people can be champions for community and environmental change and active citizenship brings personal…
Article: 04.05.21 Local Area Coordination and Prevention Nick Sinclair is the Director of the Local Area Coordination Network in England and Wales and describes here the…
Article: 12.04.21 The Macroeconomic Case Against NHS Privatisation The economic case for privatisation of the NHS and other public services is false, in fact privatisation is…
Article: 08.04.21 Energy Impairment and Social Care Many people with energy limiting impairments and chronic illness are not getting social care.
Article: 14.01.21 The Ideal of Citizenship Simon Duffy gave this talk to the LAC Network and argues that citizenship is the ideal the world needs today.
Article: 08.01.21 Behind the NHS Logo The Covid pandemic has challenged and stretched the NHS as never before. What kind of service is likely to emerge and…
Article: 14.12.20 Mencap's New Strategy Mencap, who are one of the most important organisations in England working with people with learning difficulties,…
Article: 17.11.20 Caregiving: A Puzzling Problem Beverley Smith explores the perverse way in which care is undervalued, discounted and the perverse policies which…
Article: 17.11.20 We Are NOT Second Class Citizens Catherine Hale spoke to members of Church Action on Poverty about how welfare reforms have harmed disabled people and…
Article: 09.11.20 Will the Right Hold the North? Alain Catzeflis argues that delivering on Brexit won’t be enough to enable the Conservative Party to retain its…
Article: 06.10.20 Welcoming Refugees into Our Communities How can we change hearts and minds to ensure communities welcome refugees and others who need our help.
Article: 05.10.20 Access to Further Education Gary Wootton argues that the A-Level scandal has disguised a much greater challenge - supporting those who need a…
Article: 28.09.20 Do We Need Human Contact In Medical Practice? Have rapid recent advances in IT rendered traditional face-to-face medical consultations largely redundant?
Article: 28.09.20 A Fair and Just Future for Cornwall The Cornwall Independent Poverty Forum's report outlining its vision for achieving social justice in Cornwall.
Article: 16.09.20 Manavodaya and Congregate Care Manavodaya has much to teach us about what real change requires and whether the COVID19 crisis will help us move away…
Article: 16.09.20 Popping the Housing Bubble The UK's housing market is over-inflated and even progressive policies like basic income cannot solve this without…
Article: 10.09.20 The Entrepreneur in the Wheelchair The Entrepreneur in the Wheelchair
Article: 07.07.20 A Response to All Lives Matter Black Lives Matter. We all need to accept that institutional and systemic racism is still prevalent in our society…
Article: 25.06.20 How Have We Misconceived the NHS? David Zigmond argues that government is forcing the NHS to adopt the worst features of neoliberalism and communism.
Article: 23.06.20 Growing New Models of Support How individual service funds (ISFs) can lead to new ways of supporting people in their own communities.
Article: 19.06.20 Putting Personal Budgets in Their Place Personal Budgets do not need to reinforce individualistic consumerism, they can be a route to a more collective…
Article: 18.06.20 Child Poverty: the New Normal in Education As the teaching profession debates the new normal in education and schools slowly reopen, Kieran Roberts discusses…
Article: 01.06.20 Social Care's Response to COVID-19 Chris Watson shares his observations on how commissioners in health and social care have responsed to the COVID-19…
Article: 27.05.20 Re-Imagining Our Streets Lynne Friedli shares an inspiring idea to convert residential parking spaces into green spaces for fruit, vegetables…
Article: 27.05.20 A Two-Tier Pandemic The COVID-19 crisis and subsequent coronavirus legislation demonstrates that Government does not value disabled or…
Article: 12.05.20 Contracting for ISFs Chris Watson briefly outlines the main legal features of an Individual Service Fund (ISF) and explores how community…
Article: 12.05.20 Confused Discharge in COVID-19 Alex Leeder argues that the NHS discharge policy was rushed through in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis and will…
Article: 12.05.20 COVID-19 and Cleaning the Thames David Zigmond explores the historical parallels between today and the public health crises of the…
Article: 04.05.20 Who's Counting Carers? Robert Kay expresses his anger at the constant failure to respect or even remember the existence of 7 million unpaid…
Article: 20.04.20 Public Spending in Sheffield Joshua Shepherd analysed public spending in Sheffield in order to understand the impact of the UK's centralised…
Article: 18.04.20 Scientists Inform, Leaders Lead Alain Catzeflis argues that the UK Government's behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis looks worryingly like…
Article: 07.04.20 Myths About Work and Mental Health Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl shows how dangerous myths have evolved that protect government and business from…
Article: 06.04.20 COVID-19 versus Leviathan Bill Jordan explains how pandemics can create fundamental realignments of power and why COVID-19 may finally…
Article: 06.04.20 Does COVID-19 mark the end for markets in the NHS? UK Government response to the COVID-19 is an implicit acknowledgement of the limitations and dangers of a marketised…
Article: 06.04.20 COVID-19, The Black Death and Basic Income Bill Jordan explains why COVID-19, like the Black Death before it, may finally push the current elites to accept the…
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