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Paper: 24.07.17 Back to Bedlam This report describes how and why support of people with a learning disability is heading backwards in the UK because of…
Slide: 24.07.17 Compassionate Living Jo Kidd explores veganism and justice for all in this presentation given at the Mental Wealth Festival held in…
Article: 24.07.17 Yes We Can It's important to work together on a global and local level so that we can find ‘win, win’ strategies and…
Slide: 19.07.17 Simple Steps in Action Varun Vidyarthi is the coordinator for Citizen Network India and here shares his thoughts on citizenship.
Film: 19.07.17 Beth Mount on the art of belonging P4P hosted a special live event earlier in the year featuring 6 North American presenters from diverse backgrounds.
Film: 19.07.17 How to build community A film sharing things everyone can do to build a sense of community.
Article: 17.07.17 Why Group Homes Are No Longer Optimal Michael Kendrick explains why group homes should no longer be considered the optimal support solution for people with…
Article: 17.07.17 Alternatives to ATUs Steven Rose explains why there are alternatives to ATUs and the private hospitals where too many people with…
Article: 17.07.17 A Rural Parish Initiative Bob Rhodes describes how his parish, Ruspidge & Soudley Parish Council, is exploring the use of a community worker…
Article: 17.07.17 Development from Within in 60 Minutes Erna H. Majormoen explored whether the principles of development from within, taken from Manavodaya, could be…
Paper: 16.07.17 Kent Vegan Festival The ethos behind the Kent Vegan Festival is to raise awareness about veganism as a compassionate, holistic, healthy…
Article: 10.07.17 Disability Rights and Democracy Matt Rothschild explains how the US electoral system is corrupted by the power of money and corporations that threaten…
Paper: 08.07.17 Opportunities for Smart Commissioning An analysis and insight into the current nature of service provision for alcohol-related harm in Cheltenham,…
Film: 06.07.17 It's My Home Adrian Kennedy's poem, It's My Home, based on Sam Sly's Guide to Keys to Citizenship, in a film by Ben Drew's Open Future…
Paper: 03.07.17 Self-Directed Support: Your Choice, Your Right John Dalrymple, Donald Macaskill and Henry Simmons explore the development of self-directed support in Scotland and…
Paper: 03.07.17 No Place Like Home Alice Squire and Pete Richmond draw on research from the Scottish Government to show that independent living can be…
Story: 03.07.17 Our New Family Peter Leidy shares his family's experience of partnering with another family to support an elderly relative.
Paper: 26.06.17 National Debt v Right to Social Security International researcher Alison Graham shares her PhD thesis exploring the targeting of cuts on disabled people,…
Paper: 20.06.17 Evaluation of Wee Enterprizers Project This evaluation of the Wee Enterprizers Project describes what was learned as people began to explore using…
Article: 19.06.17 Breaking the ATU Impasse Steven Rose wonders why Government policy to close ATUs and end the admission of people with learning disabilities to…
Article: 18.06.17 How Unofficial Social Policy Drives Change Steven Rose argues that social policy for people with learning disabilities has largely been driven by collaborative…
Article: 15.06.17 A Healthy Heart for the NHS David Zigmond argues that it is not just economics that is at the heart of the problems in the NHS - more than this is the…
Article: 05.06.17 The Politics of Poverty Dr Simon Duffy explores ONS data on inequality and poverty and tries to get behind the myths and lies used to exploit the…
Graphic: 05.06.17 Collapse of Social Care (2009-2016) Austerity has seen a radical reduction in the number of people supported by adult social care, with a 40% drop in 6 years.
Graphic: 05.06.17 Public Expenditure & GDP (1976-2019) Data on public spending in the UK suggests that public spending has oscillated around 40% and seems utterly…
Graphic: 05.06.17 How Incomes Changed (percent) (1977-2014) Between 1977 and 2014 tax and benefit policy has been designed primarily to life the incomes of middle-income families
Graphic: 05.06.17 How Incomes Changed (1977-2014) Between 1977 and 2014 tax and benefit policy in the UK has been designed primarily to lift the incomes of middle-income…
Graphic: 05.06.17 Changing Post-Tax-Benefit Incomes (1977-2014) Government policy, from 1977 to 2014 has primarily focused on lifting the incomes of middle-income groups while…
Graphic: 05.06.17 Changing Income Distribution (1977-2014) Between 1977 and 2014 the most dramatic changes incomes were of the richest, whose incomes increased radically, and…
Graphic: 05.06.17 The Different Kinds of UK Benefits Benefit expenditure is primarily focused on pensions, housing costs and the collapse in middle-income salaries.
Graphic: 05.06.17 Real Poverty Poverty is not just lack of money, its also isolation, disadvantage and exclusion
Graphic: 05.06.17 How Benefits are Distributed Graphic:
Graphic: 05.06.17 Growth v Equality Since 1949 income inequality has got progressively worse, however this has no positive economic effect on growth.
Reviews: 31.05.17 Doughnut Economics Conventional economics is broken. Here is the radical alternative we need to shape a better future which works for…
Article: 26.05.17 Social Work and Disappointment Michael Balkow argues that social work is inevitably a profession that must attend to the inevitable limitations of…
Article: 26.05.17 Is Brexit an Opportunity to Sort Out Social Care? Bob Rhodes argues that Brexit offers at least one silver-lining, the chance to end the procurement rules which have…
Article: 26.05.17 Industrialised Humanity David Zigmond reviews the film I, Daniel Blake and argues that it reveals, not only the cost of austerity, but also the…
Article: 26.05.17 Assisted Dying Michael Balkow argues that compassion and respect for the autonomy of those with terminal illnesses requires change…
Project: 14.05.17 Chronic Illness Inclusion Project (CIIP) Developing self-advocacy for people with chronic illness.
Album: 09.05.17 Relative Poverty Materials developed by Les Monaghan as part of his project to show the reality of poverty in modern Britain.
Graphic: 08.05.17 Unfair Burden of Cuts Since 2010 the UK Government has announced a series of severe cuts to benefits and to local government and social care.
Graphic: 08.05.17 Unfair Targeting of Cuts Since 2010 the UK Government has carried out a series of cuts or 'welfare reforms' reducing the incomes of disabled…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Government Cuts Since 2010 the UK Government has increased funding in some areas, protected funding in other areas and severely…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Benefit Fraud is Tiny Benefit fraud is minuscule; in statistical terms it is insignificant. Tax fraud and tax avoidance are the real…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Poor Pay Different Taxes The poor pay a higher rate of tax than the rich. Essentially the poor are paying higher taxes, because they are paying…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Inequality and Poverty In 2016 the poorest 6.5 million individuals in the UK lived on an average of £51 per week after tax, that's about…
Graphic: 08.05.17 The Poor Pay the Most Tax The very high levels of indirect taxes mean that the poorest 10% of the population pay about 11% more in tax than the rest…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Real Cost of Benefits Spending on benefits and pensions is often exaggerated by politicians by only referring to the gross cost, before…
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