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Article: 09.01.17 The Invisible Barrier to Disability Employment Jon Breen argues that employer attitudes to disabled workers are often based on ignorance and that these can present…
Article: 22.11.16 Supported Loving Claire Bates is starting a campaign to share what people with disabilities think makes for both good and poor support…
Article: 25.10.16 Stop Unethical Research on Children Catherine Hale explains why unethical research on children with ME must be stopped and urges you to sign the #stopGet…
Article: 06.10.16 Beyond Efficiency: Care and the Commons Thomas Allan argues that respect for the Commons is critical to rethinking our approach to social care and the welfare…
Article: 29.09.16 Managing Dissent and Embracing Diversity Nan Carle has written this moving piece on how we deal with the challenge of respectfully confronting disrespect,…
Article: 27.09.16 A Review of Social Role Valorisation (SRV) Nan Carle explores the blessings and problems created by normalisation and Social Role Valorisation as a framework…
Article: 27.09.16 Managing Cynicism Nan Carle sets out 8 Strategies for Managing Cynicism as a Leader of Inclusion.
Article: 26.09.16 What Austerity Means for Women Brooke Bates explores the impact of austerity on women in the UK at the level of the individual and civil society.
Article: 23.09.16 The Integral Path Varun Vidyarthi offers a short note on the way in which social change can and must begin by a better ordering of…
Article: 18.08.16 Data on Social Care in England Simon Duffy pulls together some of the key data relevant to the Centre's submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry on…
Article: 18.08.16 Why are they closing our home? John Burton describes how changes in the regulatory regime are forcing the closure of genuinely human homes where…
Article: 17.08.16 Potential New Policy for Social Care The Centre has been working with the Socialist Health Association (SHA) on a possible new policy for social care. This…
Article: 17.08.16 What is Happening in Social Care Jan Walmsley asked local people with learning disabilities and their families to share their experience of adult…
Article: 10.08.16 Born to Dance Sue Blackwell shares the story of her daughter Jen's journey as she sought to follow her dreams and live a life of her own…
Article: 10.08.16 Asking Better Questions Lindsay Tighe believes that if we make some simple changes to the way we communicate with each other, we enable human…
Article: 09.08.16 Can ISFs Save Domiciliary Care? Martin Walker of TLAP suggests that in the midst of the severe funding crisis hitting social care the use of Individual…
Article: 08.08.16 A Career in Adult Social Care Virginia Moffatt reviews her 30 year career in adult social care in England and the journey from institutional…
Article: 03.08.16 The Flexibility of Self-Directed Support Simon Duffy, Pat Stack and Peter Gay report on the outcomes of a one day conference organised by the London…
Article: 03.08.16 The Solution is in Our Hands Simon Duffy outlines some of the important elements that need to be considered in order to develop welfare reforms in…
Article: 03.08.16 Calculating Community Capacity Simon Duffy explores the missing community capacity that needs to be identified and galvanised as part of a reformed…
Article: 02.08.16 Real Integration of Health & Social Care Simon Duffy outlines an alternative path for achieving meaningful integration between heath and social care.
Article: 02.08.16 Heading Upstream: Deinstitutionalisation & Public Service Reform Simon Duffy explores the challenge of moving solutions upstream and away from the institutionalised solutions into…
Article: 19.07.16 Exploring the Meaning of Poverty Poverty isolates and divides us. It leaves us thinking we are not good enough and we are too poor to spend time with…
Article: 04.07.16 The Goal is Citizenship Not the NDIS Kate Fulton explores what support providers in Australia should focus on to deliver better outcomes for those who will…
Article: 15.05.16 Totally Wrong List An overview of all the Government policies which harm or disadvantage people with learning disabilities in England.
Article: 06.05.16 Personal Budgets are Just a Tool In his sixth and final blog from Finland Simon Duffy reflects on the limits of personal budgets and the need to…
Article: 04.05.16 Next Steps on Inclusion Simon Duffy wonders why progress to inclusion seems to have stalled and sets out the case for personalised support.
Article: 02.05.16 Personal Budgets and Health Economics Simon Duffy, in the fifth of his blogs from Finland, explores the relationship of personal budgets to health economics…
Article: 07.04.16 Report on the Centre for Welfare Reform Connie Faith took time to research and review the Centre for Welfare Reform - its mission and its approach and reflected…
Article: 22.03.16 Open Letter to Stephen Crabb Ekklesia and the Centre for Welfare Reform have published a letter to Stephen Crabb calling for an end to policies…
Article: 22.03.16 The Problem with Mandatory Reconsideration Eri Mountbatten outlines the worrying results from a recent survey of it's members by the National Association of…
Article: 22.03.16 Why I Keep Banging on About Citizenship Simon Duffy summarises the conclusion of his philosophical essay Citizenship and the Welfare State and what it means…
Article: 13.03.16 The Difference Between Choice and Control The fourth in a series of blogs from Finland, Simon Duffy explores the different meanings of choice and the options…
Article: 09.03.16 Rights and the Welfare State Simon Duffy describes how the welfare state has been organised around a model of state-paternalism - not human rights…
Article: 25.02.16 Personal Budgets Just Mean Freedom In the third of a series of essays from Finland Simon Duffy explains that a personal budget is fundamentally a way of…
Article: 15.02.16 Caring for Older People is Not a Wicked Problem Sarah Taylor explains why ageing and the 'problems' associated with care for older people are not so much 'wicked…
Article: 15.02.16 Ending Tendering in Social Care Simon Duffy, in the second of a series of blogs from Finland, explores the problems created by tendering for social care…
Article: 02.02.16 Politics & Economics of Personal Budgets In the first of a short series of essays Simon Duffy explores the political and economic challenges of moving towards…
Article: 02.02.16 The Search for Suitable Housing The hurdles Jane Gregory, her family and her daughter had to overcome in order to get a home to live in despite official…
Article: 01.02.16 Words Matter Stephen Craig Coulson reflects on the words that are used in human services and why it matters to use words…
Article: 28.01.16 Welfare: The Leadership Challenge Susan Harrison reflects on the challenge of being critical about the welfare state from within the welfare state and…
Article: 24.11.15 Example of Flexible Support Contract This is a real but anonymised contract between a local authority and a service provider enabling the service provider…
Article: 23.11.15 A Response to Robin Jackson Leading learning disability academic Jan Walmsley responds to Robin Jackson's critical report on the failure of…
Article: 06.10.15 A Citizen with Learning Difficulties Wendy Perez writes about what it means to be a citizen with learning difficulties.
Article: 03.10.15 Learning Difficulty or Learning Disability Wendy Perez explains why she prefers the term 'learning difficulty' to 'learning disability'.
Article: 02.10.15 Equality and the Governance of Welfare Dr Henry Tam believes that the governance of welfare has to be conducted transparently and inclusively. Here he sets…
Article: 28.09.15 Citizenship in an Ageing Society In the short essay Simon Duffy summarises the argument of his Sir Keith Wilson Oration at the 2014 Australian…
Article: 23.09.15 Why I Was Worried by the Assisted Dying Bill Wendy Perez explains why she was worried by the Assisted Dying Bill and the problems people face in the hospital system.
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