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Paper: 21.10.20 What Price Preventable Harm? Mo Stewart summarises the conclusions of the Preventable Harm Project which examined the causes and impact of the…
Article: 06.10.20 Welcoming Refugees into Our Communities How can we change hearts and minds to ensure communities welcome refugees and others who need our help.
Article: 28.09.20 A Fair and Just Future for Cornwall The Cornwall Independent Poverty Forum's report outlining its vision for achieving social justice in Cornwall.
Article: 07.07.20 A Response to All Lives Matter Black Lives Matter. We all need to accept that institutional and systemic racism is still prevalent in our society…
Film: 24.06.20 Is Basic Income Essential to the Good Life? Simon Duffy gave this keynote for the Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy as part of the Festival of Debate 2020.
Film: 08.04.20 Universal DisCredit The Canary supported Videoblogg Productions to produce a documentary describing the problems with the Universal…
Article: 02.04.20 The Upstream Response to COVID-19 Dr Simon Duffy sets out some key principles to guide local communities as they develop their response to the COVID-19…
Article: 25.02.20 The DWP Fails People with a Learning Disability Neil Carpenter describes the barriers to justice and economic security created by the DWP's systems.
Article: 10.12.19 UK Food Banks in 2019 Lizzie Peck provides an overview of the emergence and rapid growth of food banks since the Coalition Government and the…
Article: 08.12.19 Undercooked Analysis Steve Griffiths argues that the Institute for Fiscal Studies has failed to be objective in its analysis of Labour's…
Article: 07.12.19 Accountancy is not Economics Steve Griffiths examines the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) critique of of Labour's 2019 Manifesto and discovers…
Article: 01.12.19 Why I Wrote Second Class Citizens Stef Benstead found that many people, like Christian Conservatives, care about poverty but have false beliefs about…
Paper: 27.11.19 Influences and Consequences In the conclusion to the Preventable Harm Project Mo Stewart shows how US companies and right-wing ideology have…
Slide: 28.10.19 Self-Directed Support and Social Justice Self-directed support is a matter of social justice... but it is constantly threatened by consumerism and…
Inspiration: 24.10.19 Inclusion Press Jack Pearpoint, Lynda Kahn and Cathy Hollands have recently updated the Inclusion Press website and are keen to share…
Paper: 23.10.19 Canaries in the Coal Mine Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service (NCVS) share their 2019 report on the state of the voluntary, community and…
Article: 02.08.19 Bill of Rights Including Social Rights Human rights need the full protection of the constitution, social rights + right to access the law must be included.
Reviews: 24.07.19 Crippled by Austerity Simon Duffy reviews Frances Ryan's important book which describes the devastating impact of the UK Government's…
Paper: 27.06.19 An Emancipatory Welfare State A draft consultation paper setting out the arguments for a basic income for people with disabilities.
Project: 24.05.19 Anti-Austerity Resisting UK Government attacks on the welfare state
Project: 23.05.19 Sustainability & Justice Exploring how to live with justice in harmony with the planet.
Article: 23.05.19 Shameful Attack on Disabled People Brian Collinge explains how the government's failure to update the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) for people…
Project: 04.01.19 Sustainability & Social Justice Learning how to live with justice in harmony with the planet
Reviews: 20.12.18 Austerity's Victims One million adults with a learning disability in the UK who have suffered because of government measures since 2010.
Paper: 17.12.18 Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) A statement from the Centre for the #WOWdebate on the Government's reasons for refusing to carry out a Cumulative…
Story: 03.12.18 The Injustice of Benefit Sanctions The welfare system has become punitive, even more bureaucratic and humiliating. It delivers pain instead of support…
Paper: 25.10.18 US Corporate Influence on UK Welfare Reforms Mo Stewart has been researching the damage caused by welfare reform and the malign influence of US private insurance…
Article: 25.09.18 Mental Health and Tentacled Snowballs An anonymous article describing how medical and bureaucratic approaches to mental health undermine flexible and…
Paper: 25.09.18 GaN Canny 2018 Over 168 voluntary and community organisations from Gateshead and Newcastle responded to a survey by Newcastle CVS on…
Paper: 24.09.18 Extreme Poverty in a Time of Austerity This summary of the harm caused by the UK Government's austerity policies was submitted to the UN Special Rapporteur on…
Film: 10.08.18 Does Money Make You Mean? In this TEDx film, Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy.
Article: 06.07.18 What is the alternative to neoliberalism? Simon Duffy reflects on the intellectual and practical challenge facing thinkers opposed to the current neoliberal…
Film: 25.06.18 Why Northamptonshire Went Bust Simon Duffy explains why Northamptonshire went bust and what kind of thinking is required to return local government…
Article: 02.06.18 A Constitution for Disability Rights 8 reasons why disability rights activists should support constitutional reform.
Article: 25.05.18 How to Fund the NHS and Public Services Gavin Barker summarises the arguments for Modern Monetary Theory and explains why government does not need to be bound…
Paper: 09.04.18 Letters to the DWP Correspondence between Mo Stewart, the independent disability researcher, and officials at the DWP, reveals the…
Article: 12.03.18 Workers' Rights Versus the Right to Care UK social policy has created a severe, but unnecessary conflict between the rights of workers and disabled people.
Article: 12.03.18 Behind Relative Poverty The stories in Relative Poverty address the imbalance of power; Les Monaghan describes the thinking behind his…
Paper: 14.02.18 A Grounded Theory Study of Disability Benefit Changes Jessica Saffer carried out doctoral research into the psychological impact of Government changes to the disability…
Story: 12.02.18 Government Cuts are Slowly Killing Me Lorraine Howard describes how the closure of the ILF and cuts in social care in Coventry are slowly killing her.
Paper: 03.01.18 Deleted BBC News Item on Unum In 2007 the BBC reported on the influence that a US insurance company was having on UK policy, in 2010 this item was…
Article: 05.12.17 Don't Crowd Out People with Learning Disabilities Alain Catzeflis argues that people with disabilities are being harmed by bad Government policy and people with…
Paper: 10.09.17 Social Rights Are Human Rights Paul Hunt explains that social rights are fundamental human rights, but that in the UK these rights are not taken…
Reviews: 05.09.17 Reclaiming the Common Good A review of Reclaiming the Common Good: How Christians can help re-build a broken world, a collection of essays edited…
Paper: 26.06.17 National Debt v Right to Social Security International researcher Alison Graham shares her PhD thesis exploring the targeting of cuts on disabled people,…
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…
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