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Citizen Network members share ideas, stories and writings on how to advance citizenship for real.
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 StÃ¥hl 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…
Article: 02.04.20
The Upstream Response to COVID-19
Dr Simon Duffy sets out some key principles to guide local communities as they develop their response to the COVID-19…
Article: 25.02.20
The DWP Fails People with a Learning Disability
Neil Carpenter describes the barriers to justice and economic security created by the DWP's systems.
Article: 25.02.20
Talk Shop - Citizens Assemble
Citizens Assemblies are all the rage, but the Talk Shop model offers a low cost and grassroots approach which can…
Article: 24.02.20
Buurtzorg and Self-Management
Buurtzorg is a powerful social innovation, started in the Netherlands, which enables self-management and…
Article: 22.01.20
Learning from Penzance Citizens Panel
Gavin Barker shares lessons learnt from the recent Penzance Citizens Panel on Housing, Homelessness and Low Pay.
Article: 10.12.19
UK Food Banks in 2019
Lizzie Peck provides an overview of the emergence and rapid growth of food banks since the Coalition Government and the…
Article: 08.12.19
Undercooked Analysis
Steve Griffiths argues that the Institute for Fiscal Studies has failed to be objective in its analysis of Labour's…
Article: 07.12.19
Accountancy is not Economics
Steve Griffiths examines the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) critique of of Labour's 2019 Manifesto and discovers…
Article: 01.12.19
Why I Wrote Second Class Citizens
Stef Benstead found that many people, like Christian Conservatives, care about poverty but have false beliefs about…
Article: 29.11.19
NHS Reform: Money Can't Buy Love
David Zigmond argues that more money alone won't restore the NHS to the values of its birth. The NHS needs more trust,…
Article: 14.11.19
Private Firms Can Serve the Public
Gary Wootton explains how the state can overcome the limitations of markets by creating procurement systems that…
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