Self-Directed Support

People who need support are entitled to be in control of their own lives and any support they need.

Article: 04.07.16 The Goal is Citizenship Not the NDIS Kate Fulton explores what support providers in Australia should focus on to deliver better outcomes for those who will…
Paper: 11.11.15 Friendship An accessible guide for people with learning disabilities and their allies on finding friendships and love.
Paper: 22.04.15 Re-Imagining Brokerage This important paper from Liz Leach, Chair of the National Brokerage Network provides a new starting point for…
Film: 20.01.15 Self-Directed Support Simon Duffy talks about the development of self-directed support in the UK.
Paper: 19.11.14 Better Lives An Evaluation of the Choice Support Personalisation Programme for Adults with Learning Difficulties in Southwark.
Article: 26.06.14 Pro-Innovation NDIS How NDIS could be developed to promote, not hinder, social innovation.
Article: 16.06.14 Self-Directed Support is a Scottish Innovation Simon Duffy explores the Scottish roots of SDS or self-directed support.
Paper: 03.06.14 Individual Service Funds (ISFs) Individual Service Funds (ISFs) have had a positive impact on people's lives.
Paper: 15.05.14 Self-Directed Support in Finland This research report from Finland shows the success of personal budgets in improving the lives of people with…
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…
Article: 14.02.14 Reforming NDIS Simon Schwab outlines the principles that should underpin the reform of NDIS.
Slide: 23.10.13 Self-Directed Support in Europe A presentation by Aarne Rajalahti on Self-Directed Support in Europe
Slide: 22.09.13 Citizenship and Self-Directed Support This presentation was part of a day long seminar with the people of Christchurch who are starting the Enabling Good…
Paper: 10.09.13 A Personalised Approach to Safeguards in the NDIS Marita Walker, Kate Fulton and Bruce Bonyhady offer an approach to safeguarding and quality that starts from the…
Article: 28.05.13 Statements of the Obvious on NDIS Tony Lanigan has written a list of statements of the obvious that may be helpful to the designers of Disability Care…
Slide: 23.04.13 Decoding Personalisation The real value of personalisation is being lost in empty rhetoric and conceptual confusion. Local government needs to…
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…
Paper: 24.02.13 Designing NDIS An international perspective on the design of systems of individualised funding for people with disabilities.
Paper: 24.02.13 Travelling Hopefully Simon Duffy describes international best practice in self-directed support and personal budgets.
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…
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…
Project: 04.01.13 SDS and the NDIS Implementing self-directed support and the meaning of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Article: 26.10.12 Fears for NDIS A summary of concerns about the design of Australia's important National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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…
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.
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: 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.
Graphic: 16.06.12 Help and Connect Help and Connect is a powerful innovation, developed by Skills for People, to bring together their different forms of…
Graphic: 06.06.12 Community Brokerage Community Brokerage means helping people help themselves and make full use of all the community has to offer.
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…
Slide: 20.04.12 Personalisation and Local Government Talk given to local authority Chief executives on the way in which local government could re-imagine its own role - with…
Slide: 17.01.12 Personalisation & Social Work A presentation given for Social Work students at the University of Huddersfield.
Project: 04.01.12 Fellows Day 2012 A day of learning, thinking and lively discussion.
Project: 04.01.12 Architecture for Personalisation Working in partnership with people, families and community organisations.
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…
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,…
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: 24.01.11 Evaluation of SDS Pilot in Stockport The University of Chester's evaluation of self-directed support for people with mental health problems in…
Slide: 24.01.11 New Script for Social Work Presentation to social workers in North East Lincolnshire on how to return the social work role to one that is more about…
Story: 11.01.11 Adam and his Family are in Control Adam has returned from an out of area placement to take up life as an active citizen.
Paper: 04.01.11 Active Patient Vidhya Alakeson's Policy Paper sets out the case for extending the principles of self-direction, and in particular…
Project: 04.01.11 Personalised Transition How transition should work for families and young people with disabilities.
Paper: 30.10.10 Critical Path Framework Don Derrett developed this to help local authorities plan all the necessary system changes as they move towards…
Graphic: 17.09.10 Self-Directed Support The 7 step process in self-directed support.
Inspiration: 01.06.10 Model Development Model Development is one of the keys to innovation and improvement in the welfare state is the development of models…
Inspiration: 01.05.10 Personal Planning It is sometimes useful to have a plan and sometimes local bodies may seek to confirm the competence of people with…
Paper: 09.04.10 Citizenship Theory A paper which explores the theoretical foundations of personalisation.
Paper: 06.11.09 Should We Ban Brokerage? Local authorities need to make much better use of all the varied resources that communities already have to offer when…
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