Papers

Publications from Citizen Network members for reading and sharing.

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…
Paper: 14.09.15 Listen Up! This project with The Sheffield Diocese and Church Action on Poverty focused on listening to local people affected by…
Paper: 14.09.15 A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the UK Bedroom Tax This report examines the impact of the bedroom tax on health and wellbeing in a North East England community in which…
Paper: 25.08.15 Transition & Integration - changing our starting point Pippa Murray and Simon Duffy reflect on the core elements of an effective transition process in a system of…
Paper: 06.08.15 People, Places, Possibilities Written by Ralph Broad, this report describes the positive progress on Local Area Coordination in England and Wales.
Paper: 28.07.15 Spartacus Response to Cuts in ESA The Spartacus Network show how Government policies are unfair, unreasonable and in conflict with International…
Paper: 28.07.15 Spartacus ESA Mythbuster Members of Spartacus Network bust the dangerous myths and misinformation that has grown up around ESA.
Paper: 26.05.15 Cities for All - Ciudades Para Todos Ciudades Para Todos (Cities For All) is the Spanish langage version of Building A Better Future Through Civic…
Paper: 22.05.15 Raising Our Game Following the General Election, David Towell hosted a discussion on future promising opportunities and strategies…
Paper: 19.05.15 Our Lives: challenging attitudes to poverty in 2015 An important survey of the experiences of families living in in poverty in modern Britain.
Paper: 30.04.15 Quality Checking Government A survey by the Learning Disability Alliance England on the impact of the UK Government on people with learning…
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…
Paper: 22.04.15 Work Capability Assessment: deaths and suicides This report from the Spartacus Network draws together accounts of death and suicide associated with the WCA.
Paper: 08.04.15 Getting There Simon Duffy's second report on the work of Beyond Limits and Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical…
Paper: 31.03.15 Kids on Inclusion Poster 1 20 Things to do with a friend is a poster created by children thinking about inclusion and friendship.
Paper: 31.03.15 Kids on Inclusion Poster 2 20 Important things about friends is a poster created by children thinking about inclusion and friendship.
Paper: 31.03.15 Kids on Inclusion Poster 3 20 reasons to have friends is a poster created by children thinking about inclusion and friendship.
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: 04.03.15 Surviving Cogworld John O'Brien describes cogworld - the strange assumptions of systems to commodify, regulate and manage care.
Paper: 23.02.15 LDA England Newspaper Learning Disability England Alliance newspaper highlighting the results of the Quality Checking Government survey…
Paper: 18.02.15 Strengthening Communities Jo Battersby undertook research in the UK to try and determine the role of government in strengthening communities to…
Paper: 11.02.15 Abbot's Mill Project Jo Kidd describes the Abbot's Mill Project, an initiative that combines a commitment to sustainability and social…
Paper: 09.01.15 Evaluation of Employment Outcomes of Project Search UK The South West Employment Institute (SWEI) commissioned this evaluation of employment outcomes of Project SEARCH…
Paper: 09.01.15 Practical Funding Guidance for Young People This is a report from the South West Employment Institute (SWEI) on Practical Funding Guidance for Young People…
Paper: 19.11.14 Better Lives An Evaluation of the Choice Support Personalisation Programme for Adults with Learning Difficulties in Southwark.
Paper: 18.11.14 Access to Banking for People with a Learning Disability A report from Dosh on how people with a learning disability get access to banking and the problems they can encounter.
Paper: 20.10.14 Women Centred Solutions Women Centred Working has been established to share information on women centred approaches for women with complex…
Paper: 16.09.14 Dignity and Opportunity for All Jane Young's report for Just Fair provides an overview of how the UK Government is failing to meet its human rights…
Paper: 01.09.14 Let's Scrap the DWP Simon Duffy and John Dalrymple make the case for Basic Income Security - a system to integrate and reform the current tax…
Paper: 13.08.14 Civic Partnership David Towell examines how citizen groups and local authority leaderships can work together to create the civic…
Paper: 07.07.14 The Fox Report: From the North East The Fox Report from the North East provides powerful insight into how 'austerity' is being experienced by people in the…
Paper: 02.07.14 Assessing the Assessors Independent research by disabled people on the assessment process which many are forced to undergo - the Work…
Paper: 01.07.14 The Words We Use Darlington Learning Impairment Network explore how the words that professionals use to describe people very often…
Paper: 26.06.14 [R]evolution Road Veena Vasista explores the connections between individual internal change and the journey of creating political,…
Paper: 22.06.14 Reflections on Common Threads John O'Brien shares learning on Approaches and Contexts for Planning Everyday Lives following the Common Threads…
Paper: 22.06.14 Quality of Life Standards and Toolkit Produced by Changing Our Lives, The Quality of Life Standards and Toolkit aims to raise people’s expectations…
Paper: 12.06.14 Fulfilling Potential? In this significant report Catherine Hale explores the experience of a key group of disabled people who have been…
Paper: 09.06.14 WiltsCIL Evaluation of Direct Payment Workshops This report describes the experience of Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living in using peer support to help people…
Paper: 03.06.14 Individual Service Funds (ISFs) Individual Service Funds (ISFs) have had a positive impact on people's lives.
Paper: 02.06.14 Working on the Inside Kate Fulton offers insight into the inner dimension of change that is essential to working respectfully and with…
Paper: 16.05.14 Stopping Hate Crime This report describes the work of Devon and Cornwall Police to stop hate crime and better support people with learning…
Paper: 15.05.14 Exploring a Future Welfare State Research in Sheffield by the Sheffield Equality Group explores the attractiveness of the idea of a basic or citizen's…
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: 14.05.14 The Impact of Cuts in Haringey A report from Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership Board following a survey on the impact of cuts in Haringey to…
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…
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