England

There are 887 resources from England.

Project: 06.04.17 Don’t Use LD Challenging language used by health and social care professionals.
Article: 21.03.17 Individual Service Funds (ISFs) in Dorset Dorset have established a ground-breaking commissioning strategy enabling people with learning disabilities…
Article: 21.03.17 Individual Service Fund (ISFs) Agreement This Individual Service Fund (ISF) Agreement describes the contract between the person and the community service…
Paper: 21.03.17 Individual Service Funds (ISFs) Easy Read This Easy Read guide explains how Individual Service Funds (ISFs) let people manage a personal budget without needing…
Article: 14.03.17 Letter on Obstacle for Personal Budgets This open letter describes a serious block to the development of personalisation in England and calls for clear…
Slide: 09.03.17 Sam – Citizenship is for everyone Sam Sly explains why people value citizenship, what the keys to citizenship are and why they matter to people with…
Inspiration: 08.03.17 Local Area Coordination – system innovation Local Area Coordination is making a positive difference to people, communities and services across England and…
Inspiration: 16.02.17 Fighting for Inclusion or Building Community? New Prospects shifted their focus on advocacy for inclusion towards building community with encouraging results.
Article: 15.02.17 Time to Stand Up and Be Counted Don Derrett urges us as individuals to stand up and stand against this new wave of intolerance and brutality, wherever…
Article: 15.02.17 Manager training - a reading list Tim Keilty of New Prospects shares a list of resources that they use when training their managers.
Paper: 01.02.17 Derbyshire Unemployed Workers' Centres Part of a larger network of TUC Unemployed Workers' Centres, this is Derbyshire's Annual Report for 2016.
Slide: 30.01.17 Simon – Our fire for inclusion Simon Duffy gave this presentation to commissioners of services for people with learning disabilities in…
Slide: 27.01.17 Making Quality about Citizenship Sam Sly facilitated a workshop in Plymouth for CQC South West Inspectors keen to learn about improving the inspection…
Article: 19.01.17 Blowin' in the Wind Steve Griffiths rewords a Bob Dylan classic - a reflection on our crazy times where injustice and hatred seem to fuel…
Paper: 16.01.17 What's Wrong with CQC? John Burton explains why the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is unable to effectively safeguard standards for adult…
Reviews: 11.01.17 Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family Maria Lyons reviews a book which explores the celebrates caregiving as an essential role for men and women.
Article: 11.01.17 Towards an Holistic Democracy Marion Turner-Hawes reflects back on the tumultuous 2016 and looks forward to the possibility of a different kind of…
Paper: 09.01.17 Parenting Chrissy Jane Gregory explores the internal and external challenges facing young disabled people and their families in the UK…
Project: 04.01.17 Rethinking Care Challenging current assumptions in social care policy.
Project: 04.01.17 Regulation of Health and Social Care A proposal for 8 reforms to the regulation of social care.
Reviews: 16.12.16 Community Care & Inclusion for People with an Intellectual Disability Robin Jackson and Maria Lyons are the editors of a series of essays reviewing the history of services for people with…
Paper: 29.11.16 Love and Welfare There is a spiritual tradition that has been forgotten, which offers us a more positive vision of the welfare state.
Article: 22.11.16 Supported Loving Claire Bates is starting a campaign to share what people with disabilities think makes for both good and poor support…
Paper: 11.11.16 How Does It Feel To Be Assessed? Chris Akers explores how it feels for people with physical disabilities to be assessed for receipt of benefits.
Paper: 31.10.16 Citizenship: A Guide for Providers of Support Sam Sly and Bob Tindall have written a new guide for providers of support working to develop true citizenship for all.
Article: 25.10.16 Stop Unethical Research on Children Catherine Hale explains why unethical research on children with ME must be stopped and urges you to sign the #stopGet…
Reviews: 24.10.16 The Future of the Professions Robin Jackson reviews The Future of the Professions: How technology will transform the work of human experts.
Article: 06.10.16 Beyond Efficiency: Care and the Commons Thomas Allan argues that respect for the Commons is critical to rethinking our approach to social care and the welfare…
Books: 30.09.16 Cash not Care This book is the culmination of six years of self-funded research and exposes the influence of corporate America,…
Paper: 29.09.16 Political Literacy and Civic Thoughtfulness Henry Tam describes the principles that must underpin any coherent and decent community.
Paper: 29.09.16 Legal Literacy in Adult Social Care Belinda Schwehr, a leading expert in social care law, explores the declining standards in legal literacy which are…
Paper: 23.09.16 Personal Budgets - A Lived Experience A report published by Hestia highlighting both the strengths and challenges of holding a Personal Budget.
Reviews: 21.08.16 The Rise of the Robots Robin Jackson urges everyone with an interest in achieving welfare reform to read Martin Ford's book and consider the…
Paper: 17.08.16 Stronger Together - Family Event Bringing Us Together and Respond hosted a gathering of disabled children and young people, parents and families to…
Paper: 17.08.16 Avoiding Crisis Support Needed Bringing Us Together and Respond carried out a survey to find out what support families of disabled children and young…
Article: 09.08.16 Can ISFs Save Domiciliary Care? In the midst of the severe social care funding crisis, the use of Individual Service Funds (ISFs) is a way forward.
Story: 08.08.16 Dangers of Prescribed Tranquillisers (Benzodiazepines) Barry Haslam explains the devastating impact that commonly prescribed tranquillisers (Benzodiazepines) have had…
Story: 04.08.16 Care Cuts: Indignity & Uprootedness An anonymous account of the reality of social care for one man with complex disabilities in the United Kingdom.
Article: 03.08.16 The Flexibility of Self-Directed Support Simon Duffy, Pat Stack and Peter Gay report on the outcomes of a one day conference organised by the London…
Paper: 02.08.16 The Psychological Impact of Austerity This report from Psychologists Against Austerity shares well-established psychological research that directly…
Paper: 02.08.16 Local Area Coordination Evaluation Isle of Wight This six month formative evaluation outlines the work carried out to plan, implement and evaluate Local Area…
Paper: 02.08.16 Replacing Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) This research by Stef Benstead and Emma Nock, published by Ekklesia, looks at the support needs of people with chronic…
Article: 02.08.16 Heading Upstream: Deinstitutionalisation & Public Service Reform Simon Duffy explores the challenge of moving solutions upstream and away from the institutionalised solutions into…
Paper: 26.07.16 Social Value of Local Area Coordination in Derby This report, published in March, was commissioned by Think Local Act Personal in order to measure the impact of Local…
Inspiration: 24.07.16 DanceSyndrome Founded by Jen Blackwell, DanceSyndrome is an inclusive dance charity that aims to inform and empower people through…
Paper: 21.07.16 An Autoethnography of Parenting Jane Gregory shares her journey as a mother of a woman with intellectual disabilities whose complex needs and…
Article: 19.07.16 Exploring the Meaning of Poverty Poverty isolates and divides us. It leaves us thinking we are not good enough and we are too poor to spend time with…
Paper: 19.07.16 A Troubling Truth Dr Claudia Gillberg reflects on her own experience of living with the chronic illness, myalgic encephalomyelitis or…
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