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Slide: 09.04.13 Co-production and Power Co-production is a wonderful concept - but it is emptied of meaning if it does not go hand in hand with a real shift of power…
Slide: 09.04.13 Northern Social Justice Perhaps the future of the welfare state does not lie in the hands of Southern think tanks but of Northern social…
Slide: 09.04.13 Retracing Our Steps A presentation on the long history of abuse against disabled people and what we might do to reduce it.
Slide: 08.04.13 Too Complex, Too Challenging? Sam Sly describes how Beyond Limits are applying personalisation principles to support people with the most complex…
Slide: 08.04.13 Radical Social Work Sam Sly of Beyond Limits explores how radical social work can be inspired by personalisation and people with complex…
Slide: 08.04.13 The Meaning of Welfare Reform A presentation on the real meaning of welfare reform.
Slide: 08.04.13 Fund Life Not Services Presentation given at The Centre for Welfare Reform's conference on mental health reform in Leeds, December 2012.
Slide: 08.04.13 Travelling Hopefully - lessons for NDIS This talk was given to some of those leading the design of Australia's NDIS and setting out international and English…
Slide: 08.04.13 Human Rights and Citizenship The meaning of self-directed support, a full set of slides for South Australia and NDIS.
Paper: 05.04.13 Microenterprise and People with Learning Disabilities Authors Tess Reddington and Jan Fitzsimons write about the work opportunities available for people with learning…
Paper: 05.04.13 Personalisation and Independent Living Personalisation and Independent Living is part of the Solution Series of papers from the Independent Living in…
Article: 03.04.13 The Big Society Fails the Hardest Hit Catherine Hale's article explains how a range of UK government policies target disabled people.
Paper: 02.04.13 21st Century Vision A paper following the launch of the Housing and Support Alliance offering a new vision for the future.
Story: 07.03.13 My Rights Nadia Clarke writes about the damaging impact that cuts to her personal budget will have on her life.
Inspiration: 07.03.13 Peers and Allies for Living PALs gives people with mental health problems the chance to act as paid allies and supporters for people with personal…
Paper: 07.03.13 Getting Help if you have a Learning Difficulty This is a guide to getting support in Sheffield if you have a learning difficulty.
Paper: 06.03.13 The Promise of An Ordinary Life David Towell writes about An Ordinary Life the movement which drove reform for an earlier generation, and brings the…
Reviews: 28.02.13 No Going Back Authors Tim Keilty and Kellie Woodley write about the forgotten voices from Prudhoe Hospital.
Paper: 24.02.13 Travelling Hopefully Simon Duffy describes international best practice in self-directed support and personal budgets.
Paper: 24.02.13 Designing NDIS An international perspective on the design of systems of individualised funding for people with disabilities.
Article: 24.02.13 It's Not Systems That Stop Abuse Transformative leadership - not new systems, targets or policies - will help public services to tackle the problems of…
Article: 22.02.13 Implementing Personal Budgets This essay describes how personal budgets should be implemented, focusing especially on people with more complex…
Paper: 21.02.13 Augmentative Alternative Communication and Leadership Research This report outlines the power of alternative systems of communication and was written by Nadia Clarke following her…
Paper: 20.02.13 The Road to NDIS This paper by Robbi Williams and Simon Duffy explores the English experience as a valuable source of information for…
Inspiration: 18.02.13 Lyhty - Finnish Punk Rock and Much More A Finnish community hub which is helping people with intellectual disabilities create music, media and so much more.
Books: 16.02.13 Better Health in Harder Times This book explores how we may renew for our times the collective compact that created our public services in the 1940s.
Paper: 08.02.13 Towards an Ontology of Inclusion Re-Writing the Law, Science and Ethics of Intellectual Disability by Michael Bach, Canadian Association for…
Story: 08.02.13 Disability Related Costs of Living Micheline Mason and Mary Harrison explain why their disability benefits are vital.
Article: 05.02.13 Briefing on How Cuts Are Targeted This briefing provides a summary of the findings of the report A Fair Society? and some important facts and figures.
Article: 05.02.13 Is It Immoral to Cut Welfare? Dr Simon Duffy tells of his experience on television, the messages he hoped to communicate and the lessons he learned.
Inspiration: 28.01.13 It's My Life This is a creative alternative to day services operating from the assumption that everybody belongs and can join in…
Paper: 23.01.13 The Politics of Assets Based Public Health Dr Lynne Friedli argues that we must not forget the impact of poverty and injustice on health and well-being.
Article: 23.01.13 A Strategy for Welfare Reform This essay provides an overview of why the welfare state should be reformed - not cut - and what it might take to achieve…
Article: 22.01.13 What Can I Do To Make A Difference? Sam Sly writes about the importance of working together, sharing our experiences, resources and energy in the year…
Paper: 22.01.13 Shared Management Shared Management is an approach for organising practical support using the expertise of people, families and…
Story: 22.01.13 Michelle and NDIS Dell Stagg describes how she rescued her daughter from an institutional service and the need to respect families in the…
Story: 22.01.13 Karen and Being Bi-Polar Karen describes how she discovered she had a mental health problem and the ups and downs of dealing with the mental…
Inspiration: 22.01.13 Cornerstone Cafe Parent Carer Group Families and disabled people coming together to learn more, plan and bring about community change - working together.
Story: 22.01.13 Person Centred Planners Lose the Plot The story of how one self-advocate with learning difficulties came into conflict with the Person Centred Planning…
Inspiration: 22.01.13 Pass It On Parents This innovation is a system of peer support for families of disabled children.
Paper: 21.01.13 Community Sourcing and Social Care This new report by Chris Yapp and Chris Howells offers an alternative to privatisation and the hollowing out of local…
Paper: 16.01.13 A Fair Society? Produced for the Campaign for a Fair Society, this report shows how government cuts in the UK target disabled people.
Film: 16.01.13 A Fair Society? This short 3 minute film explains how the UK Government's current programme of cuts ends up targeting disabled people.
Project: 04.01.13 SDS and the NDIS Implementing self-directed support and the meaning of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Article: 30.12.12 What is Assessment and Treatment? Sam Sly describes the difficulties faced by families who have seen their children lost to the phoney system of…
Article: 28.12.12 Regulation without State Dominance Bob Rhodes outlines a different approach to regulation than the on-going expansion of incompetent state-run…
Article: 22.12.12 Getting Serious About Citizenship The debate about reform in social services loses clarity when we use jargon like personalisation, the real questions…
Article: 20.12.12 Is It All About Cuts? This short article describes how self-directed support is being used to make cuts in social care.
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