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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…
Graphic: 08.05.17 Inequality Growth The UK is one of the most unequal developed countries in the world. Inequality effectively doubled in the 1980s &1990s…
Article: 08.05.17 How the Eight Steps Help Pete Richmond explored, with colleagues on Tyneside, how Manavodaya's Eight Steps of Action help to promote…
Graphic: 06.05.17 Disabled People Hit by Multiple Cuts Part of the report Counting the Cuts in 2014, which calculated the cumulative impact of the UK's austerity policies on…
Film: 27.04.17 Cuts Target Disabled People Dr Simon Duffy explains to Anton French Films how Government policy has targeted cuts on disabled people.
Article: 24.04.17 One Good Thing Malcolm Henry imagines a conversation between a leader of the Labour Party and Andrew Neil on the topic of Universal…
Paper: 22.04.17 Advancing Inclusive Education Gordon Porter and David Towell offer a framework for transforming public education systems so as to provide inclusive…
Inspiration: 22.04.17 Small Sparks Grants Programme Bob Rhodes outlines how Small Sparks grants can work at the level of the parish as he sets out the framework published by…
Paper: 21.04.17 State Crime by Proxy In this paper Mo Stewart continues her research into the links between the DWP, Atos Healthcare & Unum Insurance.
Paper: 20.04.17 UBI: A Psychological Impact Assessment An important report which sets out the case for Universal Basic Income (UBI) from the perspective of psychologists.
Paper: 20.04.17 Complex Needs Learning History John O'Brien shares the perspectives of leading practitioners in personalised support from the New York State…
Article: 20.04.17 Should All Doctors be Resuscitators? David Zigmond asks whether there are not costs to setting arbitrary standards for health and safety regardless of…
Project: 06.04.17 Don’t Use LD Challenging language used by health and social care professionals.
Article: 21.03.17 Abolishing the NHS Market In this powerful essay David Zigmond eviscerates the Internal Market which is choking the NHS to death.
Article: 21.03.17 Individual Service Funds (ISFs) in Dorset Dorset have established a ground-breaking commissioning strategy enabling people with learning disabilities…
Article: 21.03.17 Individual Service Fund (ISFs) Agreement This Individual Service Fund (ISF) Agreement describes the contract between the person and the community service…
Paper: 21.03.17 Individual Service Funds (ISFs) Easy Read This Easy Read guide explains how Individual Service Funds (ISFs) let people manage a personal budget without needing…
Film: 16.03.17 Films from Claiming Full Citizenship Take a look at this great set of films addressing citizenship from a variety of perspectives.
Article: 14.03.17 Letter on Obstacle for Personal Budgets This open letter describes a serious block to the development of personalisation in England and calls for clear…
Slide: 09.03.17 Sam – Citizenship is for everyone Sam Sly explains why people value citizenship, what the keys to citizenship are and why they matter to people with…
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