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Story: 22.03.16 A Student Nurse and the DWP Rebecca Allen explains what happens when a student nurse falls ill and needs assistance from the benefit system in the…
Slide: 21.03.16 What is the Good Society? A presentation for the Adur Churches Network exploring the good society, citizenship and how we can restore the…
Slide: 21.03.16 What Went Wrong with the Welfare State? Simon Duffy gave this talk at a Bishop's Breakfast in Bolton setting out why the welfare state is essential to justice,…
Slide: 21.03.16 What Went Wrong with Personal Budgets? Simon Duffy explores the genesis, achievements and weaknesses of personal budgets and the problem of expecting…
Slide: 21.03.16 The Future of Welfare Reform A presentation for Sheffield's Citizen Advice Bureau exploring the UK Government's account of welfare reform and…
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…
Story: 02.03.16 The Delight in Recognising a Friend Dominic Lodge describes the delight we find in friendship - the impossibility of any artificial replacement - and the…
Inspiration: 02.03.16 Synetopia: Resource Distribution Revisited Henry Tam offers a new model for justice and the redistribution of resources - Synetopia.
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…
Paper: 21.02.16 Making Freedom Real Mel and George O'Neil share evidence that the use of Makaton, which gives people the power to communicate and exercise…
Inspiration: 21.02.16 Basic Income Plus Simon Duffy on why a system of basic income plus an appropriate disability benefit would be a significant improvement…
Paper: 20.02.16 Local Area Coordination Catalyst for a System Wide Prevention Approach Authors Les Billingham and Maureen McEleney report on the potential of Local Area Coordination to be a catalyst for…
Paper: 18.02.16 Cultivating Thinking Hearts Zipperlen & O'Brien share writings to offer lifesharers the opportunity to grow & be more responsible to…
Inspiration: 17.02.16 MyChoice Pad MyChoicePad is an innovative technology that helps people with communication difficulties to express themselves…
Paper: 17.02.16 Liberating Institutions John Burton describes how the institutional assumptions of the care system undermine the creativity and community…
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…
Paper: 15.02.16 Upfront This new publication from In Control Scotland argues that resource allocation systems are a vital part of any genuine…
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…
Reviews: 05.02.16 Pathfinders Review 2 David Towell reviews Pathfinders, the latest book by John O'Brien and Beth Mount published by Inclusion Press.
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…
Paper: 28.01.16 Citizen's Income: A Brief Introduction This valuable guide provides an introduction to Citizen's Income, or Basic Income, explaining what it means, how it…
Paper: 24.01.16 Assistance with Integrity John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien share their discussion paper first published in 1994, challenging the dominant…
Paper: 24.01.16 Citizen's Income Comic Strip The Citizen's Income Trust have produced this helpful comic strip to explain the critical concept of citizen's…
Paper: 22.01.16 Metaphors in Leadership Michael Croft of Innovation People has developed this resource to support effective and efficient strategic and…
Inspiration: 22.01.16 Camden and Co-production David Towell has been reading how local authorities can put outcomes and co-production at the heart of the…
Inspiration: 22.01.16 Insights from ABCD David Towell finds much can be gained from exploring the rich strand of often very local work associated with…
Books: 22.01.16 Pathfinders This book by John O'Brien and Beth Mount describes what we can learn from pathfinders with disabilities who have helped…
Paper: 20.01.16 The Power of Wee This report introduces the idea of Wee Enterprizers from the Social Care Ideas Factory (SCIF), a Glasgow-based…
Paper: 20.01.16 Who Will Care After I'm Gone? FitzRoy share research undertaken with parents and care professionals supporting people with learning…
Paper: 20.01.16 Shared-Life Communities for People with a Learning Disability Dr Stuart Cumella reviews academic research that has attempted to measure the quality of life of people with a learning…
Story: 18.01.16 Carla Uses an ISF Jenny Date describes how her daughter Carla uses an Individual Service Fund (ISF) so that she can have flexible support…
Project: 04.01.16 Personalised Support Flexible approaches to support and contracting in health and social care services.
Project: 04.01.16 LDA England The Learning Disability Alliance England was formed in 2015.
Project: 04.01.16 Relative Poverty Les Monaghan explored the meaning of poverty in the UK today
Project: 04.01.16 Cumulative Impact Assessment The UK govenment has imposed an ongoing austerity programme which targets cuts on disabled people and people in…
Paper: 22.12.15 Kent Vegan Festival In October 2015, 1,500 people took part in the very first Kent Vegan Festival in Canterbury, Jo Kidd shares what…
Paper: 20.12.15 A Modern Hospital Jan Walmsley and a group of disabled researchers look back at life in Princess Marina Hospital, Northamptonshire in…
Slide: 15.12.15 Peer Support meets Community Development This presentation shares the inspiring work of the People Focused Group Doncaster (PFG) in their local community.
Inspiration: 15.12.15 Transition Towns David Towell explores the great wealth of local examples generated through the Transition Towns movement that focus…
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…
Reviews: 23.11.15 Liderando la Ciudad Inclusiva Este importante libro de Robin Hambleton da un contexto integral para las propuestas en el folleto de David Towell,…
Paper: 17.11.15 Close to Collapse An interim report from Action for M.E on access to social care and advocacy for people with M.E/CFS (Myalgic…
Paper: 16.11.15 Re-Thinking Community Care: The Camphill Village Model Maria Lyons explores research on Camphill and the importance of considering intentional community and shared living…
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