It's Our Community

We need a progressive vision for social care which treats everyone as an equal citizen rooted in inclusive neighbourhoods.

Film: 26.08.23 The Value of Peer Support Peer support is one of the best ways to liberate the potential for citizens to change the world for the better.
Article: 11.08.23 Care vs Work Care offers a hopeful alternative to the destructive concept of productive work that is dominant today.
Article: 06.06.23 The Path to Community It's Our Community in Sheffield explored how to reform health and social care from the grassroots.
Article: 15.05.23 The Peckham Experiment Re-Imagined Imagine a place where you can go to discover what is good for you.
Paper: 04.03.23 Sheffield Makes Civil Society Sheffield has a vibrant civil society but its full potential is not yet realised.
Article: 04.11.22 Building the Right Support... Why we are failing to provide the right support to people and what we can do to fix it.
Webinar: 27.09.22 Peer Support Around the World Peer support is a transformative force for social change with many different forms.
Paper: 20.07.22 Lived Citizenship for Persons in Vulnerable Life Situations This Open Access book brings together a variety of articles on citizenship for people with multiple impairments.
Paper: 05.05.22 Power and Connection The first book dedicated to exploring the value of Local Area Coordination and its international development.
Map: 04.04.22 Local Spending in England A map of Local Spending and the impact of austerity in England.
Slide: 31.03.22 Is Citizenship Our Business? Avivo, pioneers in self-direction in Australia, are transforming the organisation to support citizenship at work.
Story: 07.03.22 Molly's Poem Everyone in life is dealt a different card. Some have life easy, some have it hard.
Story: 07.03.22 We Are Not Service Users People should not be defined by the services they use, services should not treat people as their property.
Article: 24.01.22 On Social Prescribing Social prescribing can become used in ways that are insensitive to what people really need.
Paper: 24.01.22 Citizen Hubs A structure to grow power in local neighbourhoods in partnership with formal civic structures.
Webinar: 08.11.21 Launch of Power and Connection The first book dedicated to exploring Local Area Coordination and integrating more than 30 years of research.
Article: 10.10.21 The Corruption of Social Care Reform Social Care is poorly understood that debates about how to improve or reform it are often empty of meaning.
Article: 01.09.21 Action for Responsible Management of Our Rivers ARMOUR, the remarkable story of saving rivers and building community across South Africa.
Article: 19.07.21 Our Care Home in Our Community We have lost sight of the true meaning of care and care homes are big business, driven by profit, cut off from our…
Paper: 14.07.21 Growing Peer Support A report on peer-led crisis support in mental health services focusing on the work of PFG Doncaster.
Article: 25.05.21 An Ode to the Citizen Spirit of Sheffield Sheffield has proud history of combining diverse peoples and communities into a greater whole, with a commitment to…
Article: 14.05.21 Improve Health by Growing Community Our health is damaged by isolation, inequality and powerlessness, so we must reconnect people by conscious community…
Article: 12.05.21 Disability Activism for the Environment Disabled people can be champions for community and environmental change and active citizenship brings personal…
Article: 04.05.21 Local Area Coordination and Prevention Nick Sinclair is the Director of the Local Area Coordination Network in England and Wales and describes here the…
Article: 08.04.21 Energy Impairment and Social Care There are many people with energy limiting impairments and chronic illness who are either not getting social care or…
Article: 14.01.21 The Ideal of Citizenship Simon Duffy gave this talk to the LAC Network and argues that citizenship is the ideal the world needs today.
Paper: 11.09.19 Fully Funded Social Care Simon Duffy and Gordon Peters explain how we might fully fund social care and why this is vital next step in achieving…
Paper: 19.08.19 The Perils of Industrialised Healthcare David Zigmond argues that the NHS needs to be built on a human scale.
Paper: 26.03.18 Reforming Social Care This report explains why integration between health and social care is not desirable, setting out a clear vision for…
Film: 08.10.15 Growing Older Mervyn Eastman talks with Simon Duffy about growing older, the meaning of citizenship and the challenges facing the…
Paper: 25.03.15 Who Cares? Author Robin Jackson offers a critique of the UK's social care system and the negative impact of ideology,…
Paper: 11.05.14 Unlocking the Imagination Simon Duffy's book first published in 1996 now updated, offers a path for commissioners who want to create the…
Paper: 17.03.14 Imagining the Future: Citizenship In a report commissioned by IRISS, Simon Duffy explores the future of social services in Scotland.
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…
Review: 04.01.11 Much More to Life than Services Bob Rhodes offers a vision for personalisation in social care that goes beyond the use of social care services and…
Graphic: 12.11.10 Commissioning for Innovation Commissioning should mean focusing on the real assets of community in order to shape innovative and appropriate…
Graphic: 01.08.09 Citizenship Model This model describes how the citizen should be central to the design and delivery of public services.
Graphic: 01.08.09 Community Capacity This model enables us to maps four dimensions of community capacity. These community capacities support the…