England

There are 840 resources from England.

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…
Slide: 25.10.12 Help and Connect Kellie Woodley of Skills for People outlines the Help and Connect model which is transforming their advocacy…
Paper: 24.10.12 Why Inequality Matters Written by members of My Fair London this paper presents further essential information about income inequality and…
Paper: 21.10.12 Better Nights An evaluation of a Choice Support initiative to improve night-time support for people with learning disabilities as…
Film: 28.09.12 The UK is Very Unequal The UK is the third most unequal developed country - and this inequality is bad for all of us - it causes many social…
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…
Film: 27.09.12 Poor Commit the Least Fraud A lot of fuss is made about benefit cheats - but few people realise it is the poor who commit the least fraud - it is…
Film: 26.09.12 Cuts Target Disabled and Poor This short film shows how the UK government's spending decisions have targeted disabled people and the poor for cuts.
Article: 25.09.12 What Goes Around... Bob Rhodes reflects on the ups and downs of building a fairer society amidst the craziness of the current system.
Film: 25.09.12 The Poor Are Very Poor The popular myth is that there is no real poverty in the UK - however the reality is that the poor are very poor - living on…
Film: 24.09.12 Poor Pay the Most Tax This short film explains the surprising fact that in the UK it is the 10% of poorest families who actually pay the most tax…
Paper: 20.09.12 Personalised Transition Journal Article This article outlines the key elements of what is still the most radical version of personalisation in the UK today -…
Film: 19.09.12 Manifesto for a Fair Society A short film setting out the principles behind and the main ideas within the Campaign for a Fair Society's Manifesto for…
Film: 18.09.12 Is the UK a Fair Society? This movie introduces the Campaign for a Fair Society - which is organised to campaign against the injustice of a system…
Paper: 06.09.12 21st Century Beveridge In this journal article from Policy & Politics Jon Glasby, Simon Duffy and Catherine Needham make the case for a…
Article: 03.09.12 Bridging the Rubicon Bob Rhodes explores the gap in thinking between public services and real communities.
Article: 02.09.12 It's the Toughest of Commissions (Song) Bob Rhodes offers a song about the paradoxes of commissioning.
Paper: 30.08.12 Innovation and the Work Programme A case study by Su Maddock on the UK government’s Work Programme procurement process.
Slide: 30.08.12 Innovation in Welfare to Work A presentation given by Su Maddock on Innovation in Welfare to Work.
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.
Story: 23.07.12 Meeting the Politicians Nadia Clarke spends time with ministers at the House of Commons.
Article: 02.07.12 Real Localism Argument for a profound shift in control towards local communities and the outline of a new strategy for local…
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…
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: 04.06.12 Fraud in Context Government's exaggerate the level of benefit fraud for political reasons.
Graphic: 03.06.12 Innovation in Public Services Innovation in public services goes through a series of phases and meets inevitable resistance.
Graphic: 02.06.12 Percentage UK Cuts by 2015 This graph shows the percentage of cuts to be achieved by 2015 in various areas.
Paper: 31.05.12 Peer Power Simon Duffy explores the inspirational work of the Personalisation Forum Group and its efforts to improve their own…
Film: 30.05.12 Welfare Reform is Not Welfare Reform A short 4 minute film explaining why current Welfare Reform plans are not real reforms and exploding some key myths.
Paper: 25.05.12 Resilient relationships Lynne Friedli explores the role of the public sector in supporting resilient relationships.
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…
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.
Books: 11.04.12 Relative Matters A guide to finding your way around the care system. Available to buy now
Slide: 25.03.12 Innovation in public services A talk for Sheffield Hallam University on the way in which social innovations struggle to succeed and how innovations…
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…
Inspiration: 27.02.12 Help & Connect Model Skills for People are providing brokerage by combining the best of their supports in a cost-effective and empowering…
Film: 27.01.12 Learning the Art of Facilitation Carl Poll talks about Manavodaya, the art of facilitation and the importance of the inner dimension of work with real…
Project: 04.01.12 Architecture for Personalisation Working in partnership with people, families and community organisations.
Project: 04.01.12 Personalisation in Mental Health Transforming the delivery of mental health services.
Project: 04.01.12 Beyond Beveridge An exploration of how the welfare state can be redesigned to put people at its centre.
Paper: 18.12.11 Creating Stronger and more Inclusive Communities A paper setting out some lessons for positive action in the context of austerity drawn from five agencies across the UK.
Paper: 14.12.11 Citizenship in Further Education Pippa Murray and Jane Shepherd set out the next steps for extending Personalised Transition into Further Education.
Paper: 24.11.11 Local Area Coordination Evaluation Report This report outlines early outcomes, lessons and opportunities from the first evaluation of Local Area Coordination…
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…
Paper: 07.11.11 There is An Alternative A report from the Association for Supported Living (ASL) demonstrating how effective community-based support is for…
Paper: 07.11.11 Personalised Transition Briefing This paper provides a clear account of the Personalised Transition that has transformed the post-school experience…
Paper: 07.11.11 Who cares? Policy proposals for the reform of long-term care The case for the reform of long-term care using self-directed support.
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