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Slide: 29.10.12 Can You Buy Care? Bob Rhodes of Lives Through Friends explores the absurdity of assuming care can be purchased in a market place. He…
Article: 26.10.12 Fears for NDIS A summary of concerns about the design of Australia's important National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Slide: 25.10.12 Help and Connect Kellie Woodley of Skills for People outlines the Help and Connect model which is transforming their advocacy…
Film: 22.10.12 Organising for Self-Directed Support This film by John O'Brien explains the developing thinking in Wisconsin about how to create the right support systems…
Paper: 21.10.12 Better Nights An evaluation of a Choice Support initiative to improve night-time support for people with learning disabilities as…
Paper: 27.09.12 Deinstitutionalisation and Community Living This paper by David Towell explores the progress made in advancing community living over the last generation and…
Story: 24.09.12 When SDS Doesn't Work An anonymous account of the real-life failure of self-directed support for a family who needed help.
Paper: 19.09.12 Personalising a Block Contract A research report describing the progress made in Barnsley to personalise a block contract with the mental health…
Article: 19.09.12 Fellows Day 2012 Fellows Day 2012
Article: 03.09.12 Is it Right to Buy a Right? Jim Elder-Woodward explores the injustice of social care charging in the UK and the double taxation of disabled…
Article: 03.09.12 Bridging the Rubicon Bob Rhodes explores the gap in thinking between public services and real communities.
Article: 29.08.12 Life Is Not a Commodity Bob Rhodes reflects on the difficulties of helping people move beyond a commodified notion of the role of public…
Inspiration: 29.08.12 Teaching Personalisation Tanya Moore provides an overview of the University of Hertfordshire's course on personalisation.
Slide: 14.08.12 Citizenship & Work A presentation on the interconnected topics of citizenship, work and self-directed support.
Slide: 12.08.12 Self-Directed Support in Aberdeen A presentation given to senior managers in Aberdeen on the nature of self-directed support and the challenges of…
Slide: 11.08.12 Support for People with Negative Reputations Sam Sly explains how Beyond Limits will be working to bring people back home from institutional services.
Slide: 10.08.12 The End of Our Illusions A presentation given at an event on Supported Living in London describing the cuts that are reducing social care and the…
Slide: 10.08.12 Self-Directed Support in Northern Ireland A presentation given at the launch event for the development of self-directed support in Northern Ireland.
Article: 25.07.12 All Change for Social Care in England? Chris Moon-Willems, an independent specialist in care for older people, assesses the Government's plans to reform…
Graphic: 24.07.12 How Individual Budgets are used This graphic shows that people, using their individual budgets, make better decisions than government.
Article: 24.07.12 What is Citizen Directed Support? Thoughts on the development of Citizen Directed Support in Wales and the connection between entitlements and…
Story: 23.07.12 Meeting the Politicians Nadia Clarke spends time with ministers at the House of Commons.
Article: 20.07.12 Personalisation or Entitlements This article explores the challenge of making personalisation effective at supporting people's human rights and…
Article: 20.07.12 Unimpressed: Cameron's Ideas on Welfare David Cameron’s latest ideas on the future shape of welfare has polarised opinion, S.H Barnett explores the…
Paper: 01.07.12 A Fair Budget A discussion paper exploring the role of the RAS (Resource Allocation System) in the development of self-directed…
Graphic: 18.06.12 Economics of Community Care Community Care was built on bad investments by the state - from which people have had to extract as much value as they can.
Graphic: 15.06.12 Transformation Jigsaw Transforming complex systems requires attention to a range of different interlocking factors.
Slide: 14.06.12 Citizen Directed Support Slides from talks given to Anglesey Council on how to develop Citizen Directed Support locally and in Wales.
Paper: 13.06.12 Local Area Coordination Ralph Broad describes a long-standing social innovation, first developed in Australia, which helps people stay part…
Graphic: 06.06.12 Community Brokerage Community Brokerage means helping people help themselves and make full use of all the community has to offer.
Slide: 28.05.12 Personalisation - Emerging Challenges Talk for the University of Lincoln in Hull on personalisation - some of its achievements and the emerging challenges.
Slide: 25.05.12 Personalisation - some personal reflections Talk given for Self-Direct in York on the implementation of personalisation and some of the thoughts looking back on…
Paper: 24.05.12 Ideas from Self Direct Members Members of self direct met together in York to listen to invited speakers and to put questions to an expert panel. This…
Inspiration: 14.05.12 Principles of Self-Directed Support These seven principles provide the ethical context for the implementation of Self-Directed Support as a system for…
Article: 13.05.12 West Lancashire Peer Support Les Scaife describes how the West Lancashire Peer Support Group was born and the work it continues to do.
Article: 12.05.12 Is It Only Me? S.H.Barnett wonders why personal budgets which promise so much have largely failed to deliver.
Article: 11.05.12 Are Institutions Still With Us? Sam Sly explores the problems that leave too many people with complex needs in long-term institutional care.
Paper: 01.05.12 Personalisation and Human Rights In this paper the authors argue that the broad policy concepts and detailed practice of personalisation are rooted in,…
Slide: 21.04.12 Journey to Citizenship Talk given in Helsinki on the progress made towards citizenship by disabled people and particularly by people with…
Review: 11.04.12 Relative Matters - The essential guide to finding your way around the care system for older people Fellow of the Centre Chris Moon-Willems has published an important new book on care and support for older people.
Slide: 25.03.12 The Development of Individual Budgets Talk given to the Social Policy Research Unit in York on the birth of individual budgets and the development and…
Paper: 02.03.12 ISFs in Action A research report by Sian Hoolahan of Choice Support describing the progress being made in Southwark using Individual…
Slide: 06.02.12 A Fair Society and the rights of disabled people A presentation given at a meeting of the Sheffield Green Party and the Campaign for a Fair Society.
Review: 06.02.12 Commissioning for Health and Well-Being This book explores what commissioning is, where it has come from and where it might be taking us.
Slide: 02.02.12 A Fair Society: supported living and personalisation A presentation given at a conference for the Association for Supported Living and the Campaign for a Fair Society.
Slide: 30.01.12 Whole System Change: the meaning of personalisation This presentation was given at the national conference organised by North Lanarkshire Council on Self-Directed…
Article: 26.01.12 Is Personalisation Dead? Simon Duffy explores some of the problems involved in implementing personalisation and the fundamental question of…
Project: 04.01.12 Architecture for Personalisation Working in partnership with people, families and community organisations.
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