Articles

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

Article: 25.09.12 What Goes Around... Bob Rhodes reflects on the ups and downs of building a fairer society amidst the craziness of the current system.
Article: 19.09.12 Fellows Day 2012 Fellows Day 2012
Article: 03.09.12 Is it Right to Buy a Right? Jim Elder-Woodward explores the injustice of social care charging in the UK and the double taxation of disabled…
Article: 03.09.12 Bridging the Rubicon Bob Rhodes explores the gap in thinking between public services and real communities.
Article: 02.09.12 Vinny Went Cycling for Charity Vinesh Kumar tells the story of his 500 mile cycle ride across India, of the Avarind Eye Clinic and his thoughts and…
Article: 02.09.12 It's the Toughest of Commissions (Song) Bob Rhodes offers a song about the paradoxes of commissioning.
Article: 29.08.12 Life Is Not a Commodity Bob Rhodes reflects on the difficulties of helping people move beyond a commodified notion of the role of public…
Article: 25.07.12 All Change for Social Care in England? Chris Moon-Willems, an independent specialist in care for older people, assesses the Government's plans to reform…
Article: 24.07.12 What is Citizen Directed Support? Thoughts on the development of Citizen Directed Support in Wales and the connection between entitlements and…
Article: 24.07.12 UN Declaration of Human Rights The UN's Declaration is an important starting point for welfare reform. It makes clear the need for clear rights and…
Article: 20.07.12 Personalisation or Entitlements This article explores the challenge of making personalisation effective at supporting people's human rights and…
Article: 20.07.12 Unimpressed: Cameron's Ideas on Welfare David Cameron’s latest ideas on the future shape of welfare has polarised opinion, S.H Barnett explores the…
Article: 02.07.12 Real Localism Argument for a profound shift in control towards local communities and the outline of a new strategy for local…
Article: 13.05.12 West Lancashire Peer Support Les Scaife describes how the West Lancashire Peer Support Group was born and the work it continues to do.
Article: 12.05.12 Is It Only Me? S.H.Barnett wonders why personal budgets which promise so much have largely failed to deliver.
Article: 11.05.12 Are Institutions Still With Us? Sam Sly explores the problems that leave too many people with complex needs in long-term institutional care.
Article: 09.05.12 Full Citizenship for People with Intellectual Disabilities An interview with Simon Duffy for the Finnish Year Book on Intellectual Disabilities on the nature of citizenship.
Article: 02.04.12 The Journey to Citizenship - Deinstitutionalisation in Finland Finland is beginning to close its institutions for people with learning difficulties. Simon Duffy explores what can…
Article: 12.03.12 Campaigning for a Fair Society Simon Duffy gave one of the talks at the launch of the Manifesto for a Fair Society at the House of Lords on the 12th March.
Article: 03.03.12 Who Really Benefits from Welfare? Simon Duffy looks at how the tax benefit system really works and wonders who are the real beneficiaries of this system?
Article: 26.01.12 Is Personalisation Dead? Simon Duffy explores some of the problems involved in implementing personalisation and the fundamental question of…
Article: 21.12.11 120,000 Reasons to Listen to Women Clare Hyde wonders whether the government's thinking about focusing on 'problem' families is informed by an…
Article: 21.12.11 Integrating Mental Health Funding This essay argues that the integration of social care and healthcare funding in Mental Health is still a priority and…
Article: 20.12.11 Individual Health Budgets Pilot Begins Beyond Limits and NHS Plymouth are piloting an exciting model of service delivery to ensure that people with…
Article: 19.12.11 Self-Determination Doesn't End as We Age Terry Lynch on growing older and maintaining dignity and self-determination through independent living.
Article: 15.12.11 Personalisation in a Time of Cuts Lawyer Kate Whittaker describes the conflict between the current drive to cut social care spending in the UK and the…
Article: 14.12.11 Flexible Funding Routes in Further Education Fellow Pippa Murray explains the funding routes that will allow for the development of more personalised and flexible…
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…
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