Papers

Publications from Citizen Network members for reading and sharing.

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…
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…
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…
Paper: 20.07.16 Individualised Funding: Implications for Family Carers A report commissioned by Mind Australia to find out how carers experienced similar schemes to the NDIS, when they were…
Paper: 20.07.16 I Would Never Have Believed A report from the Thistle Foundation and Animate on Learning from the Individual Service Fund (ISF) Pilot undertaken…
Paper: 19.07.16 Life in Bolsover Today Inequality in the UK has doubled in a generation and the consequences are felt most harshly in places like Bolsover as…
Paper: 19.07.16 A Troubling Truth Dr Claudia Gillberg reflects on her own experience of living with the chronic illness, myalgic encephalomyelitis or…
Paper: 20.06.16 State Guardian or Head Gardener? Robin Jackson sets out the wide-ranging concerns at the decision of the Scottish Government to put in place a 'named…
Paper: 16.05.16 Taking Forward Women Centred Solutions This guide shows how gendered approaches can help unlock solutions to complex problems, delivering multiple…
Paper: 16.05.16 Raising Our Game David Towell shares ideas on the strategies we might need to build a future in which we live in harmony with ourselves,…
Paper: 12.05.16 Learning from Mental Health PHBs in Stockport Research describing how peer supporters from All Together Positive work to enable people with mental health problems…
Paper: 12.05.16 Health Buddies in Royds This is the operational plan to tackle the extreme health inequalities in the Royds area of Bradford by the use of Health…
Paper: 12.05.16 Calderdale's Guide to Individual Service Funds (ISFs) Calderdale Council have produced a guide for Individual Service Funds (ISFs) which describes their benefits to…
Paper: 12.05.16 Siete Claves para la Educación Inclusiva David Towell ofrece una perspectiva internacional sobre el desarrollo de la educación inclusiva.
Paper: 11.05.16 Los Profesores como Líderes The Spanish translation of David Towell and Heidy Araque's paper reflecting on the role of teachers and leaders in and…
Paper: 11.05.16 Fomentar la Educación para Forjar una Sociedad Inclusiva The Spanish translation of David Towell and Heidy Araque's paper on promoting education for an inclusive society.
Paper: 10.05.16 Assessment and Setting Standards Nan Carle presented this paper in 1983 but today, as thousands continue to live in abusive institutional settings this…
Paper: 10.05.16 The Dane County Difference Dane County in Wisconsin, USA has been a beacon of social innovation for people with intellectual and developmental…
Paper: 09.05.16 Educación Para Un Mañana Mejor Esta es la versión actualizada del folleto más reciente en la serie de folletos producida por David Towell y sus…
Paper: 09.05.16 Trabajar en Red Para Lograr el Cambio Social David Towell y Heidy Araque reflexionan sobre la experiencia de la red inclusiva basada en ciudad Colombiana de…
Paper: 26.04.16 Examining Commissioners' Leadership Behaviour Peter Bohan and Graeme Mitchell research leadership behaviour in CCGs and discover that the dominant style is not…
Paper: 26.04.16 Life on the Back Roads Dr Mark Bagshaw is Deputy President of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and writes here about his…
Paper: 13.04.16 Submission on Social Security 2016 In partnership with Ekklesia the Centre for Welfare Reform made a submission to the UK Liberal Democrats policy review…
Paper: 13.04.16 In the Expectation of Recovery George Faulkner's report outlines how misleading medical research has been used to support disability cuts.
Paper: 30.03.16 CoolTan Arts Report on Personal Budgets Alison Vine of CoolTan Arts explores the practice of personal budgets as it impacts on small voluntary sector…
Paper: 22.03.16 Citizenship and the Welfare State Exploring the role of citizenship in the definition and defence of the welfare state.
Paper: 21.02.16 Making Freedom Real Mel and George O'Neil share evidence that the use of Makaton, which gives people the power to communicate and exercise…
Paper: 20.02.16 Local Area Coordination Catalyst for a System Wide Prevention Approach Authors Les Billingham and Maureen McEleney report on the potential of Local Area Coordination to be a catalyst for…
Paper: 18.02.16 Cultivating Thinking Hearts Zipperlen & O'Brien share writings to offer lifesharers the opportunity to grow & be more responsible to…
Paper: 17.02.16 Liberating Institutions John Burton describes how the institutional assumptions of the care system undermine the creativity and community…
Paper: 15.02.16 Upfront This new publication from In Control Scotland argues that resource allocation systems are a vital part of any genuine…
Paper: 28.01.16 Citizen's Income: A Brief Introduction This valuable guide provides an introduction to Citizen's Income, or Basic Income, explaining what it means, how it…
Paper: 24.01.16 Assistance with Integrity John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien share their discussion paper first published in 1994, challenging the dominant…
Paper: 24.01.16 Citizen's Income Comic Strip The Citizen's Income Trust have produced this helpful comic strip to explain the critical concept of citizen's…
Paper: 22.01.16 Metaphors in Leadership Michael Croft of Innovation People has developed this resource to support effective and efficient strategic and…
Paper: 20.01.16 The Power of Wee This report introduces the idea of Wee Enterprizers from the Social Care Ideas Factory (SCIF), a Glasgow-based…
Paper: 20.01.16 Who Will Care After I'm Gone? FitzRoy share research undertaken with parents and care professionals supporting people with learning…
Paper: 20.01.16 Shared-Life Communities for People with a Learning Disability Dr Stuart Cumella reviews academic research that has attempted to measure the quality of life of people with a learning…
Paper: 22.12.15 Kent Vegan Festival In October 2015, 1,500 people took part in the very first Kent Vegan Festival in Canterbury, Jo Kidd shares what…
Paper: 20.12.15 A Modern Hospital Jan Walmsley and a group of disabled researchers look back at life in Princess Marina Hospital, Northamptonshire in…
Paper: 17.11.15 Close to Collapse An interim report from Action for M.E on access to social care and advocacy for people with M.E/CFS (Myalgic…
Paper: 16.11.15 Re-Thinking Community Care: The Camphill Village Model Maria Lyons explores research on Camphill and the importance of considering intentional community and shared living…
Paper: 11.11.15 Friendship An accessible guide for people with learning disabilities and their allies on finding friendships and love.
Paper: 10.11.15 Fight Back A report from Cyngor ar Bopeth Ceredigion Citizens Advice Bureau, written by Eri Mountbatten, on the impact of…
Paper: 06.10.15 Peace, Sustainability & Inclusive Citizenship in Colombia David Towell and colleagues offer a framework for exploring how education needs to be transformed to play its part in…
Paper: 03.10.15 Respectful Language Laura (Mole) Chapman explores what lies behind the idea of respectful language and reflects on the use of language in…
Paper: 23.09.15 A Manifesto for Planet and Progeny The world is haunted by the spectre of an 'economic man' and his form of capitalism, seen as the be all and end all of…
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