social care

social work | self-directed support | personalised support | social services | personal budgets | individual service funds | commissioning | residential care | regulation | domiciliary care

Project: 04.01.12 Architecture for Personalisation Working in partnership with people, families and community organisations.
Project: 04.01.12 Women at the Centre The valuable work of WomenCentre in Halifax and Huddersfield and the challenges of modern commissioning.
Project: 04.01.12 Beyond Beveridge An exploration of how the welfare state can be redesigned to put people at its centre.
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.
Paper: 18.12.11 Whose risk is it anyway? Jon Glasby explores the concept of risk and its relationship to personalisation in social care.
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…
Paper: 14.12.11 Citizenship in Further Education Pippa Murray and Jane Shepherd set out the next steps for extending Personalised Transition into Further Education.
Paper: 24.11.11 Local Area Coordination Evaluation Report This report outlines early outcomes, lessons and opportunities from the first evaluation of Local Area Coordination…
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…
Paper: 07.11.11 There is An Alternative A report from the Association for Supported Living (ASL) demonstrating how effective community-based support is for…
Paper: 07.11.11 Personalised Transition Briefing This paper provides a clear account of the Personalised Transition that has transformed the post-school experience…
Paper: 07.11.11 The Personalisation Agenda: implications for the third sector The implications of personalisation for the third sector are explored in this clear overview.
Paper: 07.11.11 Who cares? Policy proposals for the reform of long-term care The case for the reform of long-term care using self-directed support.
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…
Slide: 14.10.11 Disability & the Cuts Presentation given in Sheffield at joint event with Sheffield CIL and Church Action on Poverty.
Paper: 10.10.11 Dying with Dignity This report explores how personalisation could transform end of life care. It outlines the approaches necessary to…
Slide: 07.10.11 Personalisation and Localism Talk given in Barnsley on personalisation and localism - and its real meaning.
Slide: 07.10.11 The Architecture for Personalisation Presentation given in Sheffield to describe the necessary underpinnings for personalisation in social care.
Slide: 07.10.11 Mental Health and Primary Care Presentation given at University of Birmingham on the need of mental health reform.
Review: 06.10.11 Citizenship & Person-Centered Work Edited by John O'Brien & Carol Blessing, leaders of the inclusion movement share their invaluable learning.
Paper: 01.10.11 Hands Off It's My Home Toolkit A toolkit for auditing support to people with learning disabilities and developing an outcomes-based action plan for…
Paper: 19.09.11 Peer Support How to promote peer support as an element of community brokerage and the new script for social work.
Paper: 19.09.11 Community Engagement How to work with communities to identify information, advice and assistance for people controlling their own…
Film: 18.09.11 A New Script for Social Work Social workers need to be released from a damaging set of bureaucratic structures that are making their work more…
Article: 06.07.11 The Key to Support Planning Liam Toner explains how support planning could become genuinely empowering rather than just another bureaucratic…
Paper: 29.06.11 Response to SEN & Disability Green Paper Pippa Murray argues that the current education system discriminates against disabled people and suggests…
Paper: 21.06.11 Help and Connect A new form of community-brokerage called Help and Connect which is being piloted by Skills for People in Newcastle.
Slide: 17.06.11 What We Are Campaigning For Simon Duffy outlines the case for radical reform of the current system and opposing the unfair cuts that target…
Slide: 16.06.11 Overcoming the Barriers to Innovation Exploring how social innovation works and the barriers it faces within the welfare system.
Slide: 16.06.11 Realising the Benefits of Personalisation Personalisation in health and social care can be implemented well or badly - and there are many temptations to poor…
Slide: 14.06.11 Personalisation Masterclass A presentation given in Dumfries & Galloway exploring the many different aspects of personalisation in…
Paper: 13.06.11 The Path to Fairness Pippa Murray calls for radical change to welfare and support services for families of children with disabilities and…
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,…
Paper: 03.05.11 Using the Law to Fight the Cuts This guide sets out the most important principles of the law in England which can be used to fight the cuts to services for…
Film: 28.04.11 About the Centre for Welfare Reform Fellows of the Centre for Welfare Reform discuss social justice, citizenship and the reason for setting up the Centre.
Paper: 28.04.11 From Unfair Cuts to a Fair Society This paper sets out the case for radical reform of the system of support to older and disabled people, and all those…
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…
Inspiration: 31.03.11 Social Work Rescript The role of the care manager needs to be radically redesigned in order to make best use of social work skills and the new…
Film: 24.03.11 Active Patient Vidhya Alakeson of the Resolution Foundation describes how personalisation and the use of individual budgets in…
Slide: 22.03.11 Developing Policies for the Campaign for a Fair Society Slides that explore the development of personalisation, the unfairness of the current cuts and the kind of policies we…
Paper: 21.03.11 Competency in Practice-Based Commissioning A summary of effective approaches to Patient and Public Involvement for GP consortia.
Graphic: 20.03.11 New Script for Social Work Personalisation and the best use of social work skills demands a new script to replace the broken system of care…
Paper: 04.03.11 A Fair Society and the Limits of Personalisation This discussion paper describes how the current cuts that target disabled people reflect deep flaws within the…
Slide: 04.03.11 A Fair Society - Tizard Annual Lecture These slides were given as part of the 2011 Tizard Lecture given by Simon Duffy on A Fair Society & the Limits of…
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…
Paper: 31.01.11 First and Last Mark Brend describes the history of the closure of the learning disabilities hospitals that were once used to…
Graphic: 25.01.11 Five Basic Tasks The core competencies of any agency aiming to support people who are at risk social exclusion and devaluation
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