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Research: 13.08.18
Mapping SDS around the world
Take part in the SKILLS survey to map international progress on self-directed support.
Research: 08.08.18
How is self-directed support developing globally?
How is self-directed support developing globally?
Event: 02.08.18
Basic Income in a disabling world - August 2018
Citizen Network will be at the BIEN International Congress in Tampere.
Action: 01.08.18
What's the impact of chronic illness in the UK today
The Chronic Illness Inclusion Project launches major survey to capture the experiences & views of people living…
News: 01.08.18
Citizen Network Greece at IASSIDD
Citizen Network was asked to run a workshop at the 5th IASSIDD European Congress in Athens in July 2018.
Action: 24.07.18
Share your austerity stories
WOW Voices are documenting the impact of austerity on the people behind the numbers in a bid to challenge Government…
News: 23.07.18
UN to investigate extreme poverty in the UK
United Nations investigator to probe the impact of Tory austerity policies in Britain, in the UN's first visit to a…
Event: 19.06.18
Diversity & Belonging - July 2018
The theme of the IASSIDD conference is a celebration of human diversity, within spaces and places where we feel…
Event: 19.06.18
Peer-led organisations for inclusion - June 2018
Join Plumtree and guests Jyrki Pinomma and Pippa Murray to hear about their experience in promoting inclusion for…
News: 07.06.18
Parliamentary debate on ME secured
Westminster Hall Debate on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) treatment and research set for Thursday 21st June.
Release: 07.06.18
Making Poverty Visible
For those who dismiss empirical research Les Monaghan's Relative Poverty photography work bears witness to lives…
Research: 22.05.18
Welfare conditionality causes more harm than good
The WelCond project, led by the University of York and colleagues, found that welfare conditionality causes more harm…
News: 15.05.18
Disabled people facing government hostility
Letter published in The Guardian protesting at the failure of the media to cover the on-going attacks on disabled and…
Release: 08.05.18
Publication of Report on Constituency Changes
This report shows how Boundary Commission England's planned changes will worsen inequities of UK electoral system.
Release: 29.03.18
The Balance of Rights
A new Anton French Film exploring the challenges faced by people with learning disabilities in the UK today.
Release: 28.03.18
Report on how to reform social care published
Robin Jackson's report explains why health and social care integration is poor policy and offers instead a practical…
News: 27.03.18
Guide published on what makes us healthy
This guide from The Health Foundation gives helpful information and practical advice on tackling the social…
Event: 06.03.18
Festival of Debate: April to June 2018
Sheffield's Festival of Debate is one of the largest political festivals in the UK, with 75 debates, including several…
Research: 01.03.18
Personal Health Budget survey
NHS England invite you to share your experience of the care and support you receive in a new survey on PHBs.
News: 01.03.18
Liberal Democrats back call for Citizen Convention
Tom Brake MP has written to the Centre to back the call for a Citizen Convention on Constitutional Reform.
News: 01.03.18
Local Green Party support for Citizen Convention
Mid & East Cornwall Green Party and West Cornwall Green Party set out their reasons for backing constitutional and…
Release: 28.02.18
Guidance on Individual Service Funds (ISFs) published
The Centre has produced a range of new publications on ISFs with TLAP, Community Catalysts and In Control Scotland.
Event: 23.02.18
Peer support does community - April 2018
The People Focused Group will be sharing their 10 years of peer-support learning with Cormac Russell and Simon Duffy.
Event: 23.02.18
This is not a conference
A cutting edge event in Edinburgh from Diversity Matters about self-directed support.
Action: 23.02.18
Advocacy and the social history of learning disability - July 2018
A call for papers for the 2018 Social History of Learning Disability (SHLD) Conference.
Action: 23.02.18
Don't Use LD - more news
The campaign to stop people using the term LD to refer to people.
News: 22.02.18
Leader of Party for Cornwall responds
Dick Cole, Leader of the Party for Cornwall has written to the Centre expressing his personal support for the…
Event: 15.02.18
People Focused Group: Our Stories
People Focused Group are sharing their stories with guests in Doncaster on 11th April.
Release: 14.02.18
Beyond Direct Payments published
The Centre has helped develop a range of resources to help change commissioning and improve social care.
News: 13.02.18
SNP add their support to Citizen Convention
Ian Blackford MP has written to the Centre for Welfare Reform to express support for the growing movement for…
News: 08.02.18
Plaid Cymru and Green Party back call for constitutional reform
Leaders from Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have expressed support for the idea of citizens convention to develop a new…
Research: 02.02.18
Could basic income help the emancipation of people with disabilities?
Many people believe basic income – a system where everyone would get a secure unconditional income –…
News: 29.01.18
Joint inquiry launched on long-term funding of adult social care
The Communities & Local Government and Health Committees launch joint inquiry on the long-term funding and…
News: 23.01.18
Open Letter on Constitutional Reform published
The Centre for Welfare Reform with an alliance of campaigners and leading thinkers is calling for radical…
News: 15.01.18
Repeal Bill Alliance has been formed
The Alliance has been formed to ensure that rights and protections are kept in place as the UK leaves the EU to protect…
Coverage: 13.01.18
It's time to radically reform social care
Jim Elder-Woodward writes for The Herald on why disabled people should be entitled to a clear national entitlement to…
Coverage: 08.01.18
Why patients with ME are demanding justice
The Independent newspaper reports on the background to the growing movement for justice for people with ME.
Action: 04.01.18
Calderdale for Calais refugees appeal
The Clarke Family travelled to Calais to distribute aid to refugees over the Christmas holiday, the BBC filmed their…
News: 22.12.17
Letter to Sarah Newton, Minister for Disabled People
Researcher ask why Government continues to insist on the use of the discredited Work Capability Assessment (WCA)
News: 20.12.17
The UK Government makes the UK even more unfair
A detailed analysis looking at back at the last 7 years of Government policy demonstrates its unfairness
Release: 05.12.17
A New Way Home is published
Ground-breaking guide now published to ensure people leave institutional care directly into a life of citizenship.
Event: 28.11.17
Understanding people with autism - February 2018
Fresh One is a 1-day training course for people who have a family member, or work with someone, with autism.
News: 28.11.17
Supported Loving Update
Update on the work of the Supported Loving Network
News: 24.11.17
Made Possible - Appeal for funding
The first ever mainstream, non-academic, non-professional book about and by people with learning disabilities…
Action: 21.11.17
Carl Poll Scholarship established
The Centre is pleased to announce a new grant programme to grow the work of Manavodaya internationally.
Release: 20.11.17
Don't Cramp My Style on sale now
Simon Cramp's inspirational biography of his Campaigning Life is available to purchase in paperback.
Research: 17.11.17
Government policy is killing people
Latest research published by the BMJ links austerity policies in the UK, particularly severe cuts to social care, with…
Event: 17.11.17
Film festival - December 2017
This 3rd Annual Film Festival in Canada explores the representation of disability in film.
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