Articles

Citizen Network members share ideas, stories and writings on how to advance citizenship for real.

Article: 03.12.24 Individual Service Funds Explainer The basic building blocks of offering personalised support with ISFs and what it means in practice.
Article: 02.12.24 Multilevel Citizenship Grassroot activists and governments need each other and we need to integrate different kinds of decision-making.
Article: 19.11.24 Delivering Sustainable Savings and Efficiencies in Social Care Individual Service Funds (ISFs) offer citizens the autonomy to control their care budgets directly.
Article: 12.11.24 Celebrating the Success of Mi Casa The final conference of Plena inclusión's Mi Casa project marked an important step forward for human rights in Spain.
Article: 09.10.24 Citizen Democracy: Learning from North West Together We Can NWTWC promoted local and regional based learning to improve lives and create sustainable communities.
Article: 10.09.24 Learning for Democracy Learning how to play our part in democracy is a basic skill that needs to be learned by everyone.
Article: 09.09.24 Citizen Participation in Africa Democracy in Africa is under threat but emerging innovations improve accountability and participation.
Article: 03.09.24 Our Vanishing Communities of Health A conversation about the growing depersonalisation of health and care and the dangers this poses.
Article: 02.09.24 Engaging the Marginalised How do we reach people who are rarely heard and encourage them to engage in citizen democracy?
Article: 25.07.24 Democratising Education It will take big changes in how we do education if we are going to support people to value democratic principles.
Article: 24.07.24 Developing Neighbourhood Care in South Yorkshire Leaders in South Yorkshire gathered together to begin developing a neighbourhood care strategy.
Article: 23.07.24 A Digital Approach to Person-Centred Planning Digital technology is opening up new ways in which people can develop their own person centred plan.
Article: 04.07.24 Open Letter on Neighbourhood Democracy A call for a deeper democracy that engages everyone as citizens in their neighbourhoods and beyond.
Article: 24.06.24 Civic Dialogues and Citizen Democracy We need to help people make decisions together on a much more local level.
Article: 18.06.24 Heartificial Intelligence We need to teach our children to love, to feel and to recognise the needs of others.
Article: 17.06.24 A Visionary Future with Basic Income for Farmers Basic income for every farmer could help end poverty for farmers and better protect nature.
Article: 14.06.24 Neighborocracy It is possible to do democracy very differently and to make sure everyone is involved.
Article: 10.06.24 All Hail Citizenship! The keys to citizenship can help improve services for people with disabilities in many ways.
Article: 06.06.24 Grassroots Manifesto for Sustainability Policies to help us take care of the planet, support wildlife and better farming.
Article: 21.05.24 Defining Our Neighbourhoods Identifying our neighbourhoods is important because it helps citizens to share the work of taking care.
Article: 20.05.24 Citizen Armies Citizen Armies led by people with a learning disability will make inclusion in our communities work.
Article: 09.05.24 Isn't Language Funny! We need to be careful about the language we choose to use in health and social care.
Article: 08.05.24 Creating a Life in Community Sofia Reyes leads the Mi Casa project in Spain which is a major development in deinstitutionalisation.
Article: 23.04.24 Deinstitutionalisation: A View from Spain Plena inclusión's project Mi Casa is part of an ambitious Spanish strategy for deinstitutionalisation.
Article: 03.04.24 The Creation of a Global Newspaper The theme of the first edition of Citizen Network News is public spaces, order your copy now.
Article: 15.03.24 Making Friends A simple greeting generates a story of community between neighbours with common interests.
Article: 10.03.24 Supporting People with Individual Service Funds Darwin Care support people with learning disabilities and autism in Dorset and use ISFs.
Article: 08.03.24 Humanity and the Planet Citizen Democracy is essential for tackling the urgent problems of the planet.
Article: 07.03.24 Democratic Healthcare The NHS and other public services need to be accountable to citizens and communities.
Article: 06.03.24 Democracy and Misinformation Misinformation in politics is extremely damaging to democracy, we should focus on practices to curtail it.
Article: 05.03.24 Our Democratic Infrastructure 9 areas for improvement in our democratic infrastructure.
Article: 13.02.24 Living Well with Dementia Liz Leach Murphy has written two guides to living well with Dementia and shares key findings from her research.
Article: 06.02.24 The Value of Grief We cannot truly value life unless we are prepared to accept the pain of losing someone.
Article: 05.02.24 The ‘Scarcity’ of Money Government can create the money we need in order to do the things that really matter.
Article: 29.01.24 Support in the Community Let's concentrate on the right place to live and the right support.
Article: 23.01.24 Edward Carpenter and Basic Income Edward Carpenter explores the case for universal basic income and a world with more joy, beauty and usefulness.
Article: 22.01.24 So Toxic It's Toxique! Language is powerful and we must pay attention to how it's being used and when it's being misused.
Article: 14.12.23 Integrated Personal Budgets Integrated Personal Budgets bring together different resources to help people take control of all their supports.
Article: 07.12.23 Remembering Terry Lynch Terry Lynch was a wonderful man who showed how the principles of independent living apply to everyone.
Article: 06.12.23 Third-Party Personal Health Budgets Third-Party Personal Health Budgets or Individual Service Funds (ISFs) are a key tool for personalising care.
Article: 06.12.23 The Urgent Need for Yorkshire Devolution Regional inequalities in England are caused by growing centralisation of power - this trend can be reversed.
Article: 02.11.23 Building a Sustainable Future Solutions to sustainability require the involvement of all citizens: pooling knowledge, skills and creativity.
Article: 01.11.23 Fixing Broken Britain It is time to abandon the failed dogmas that accelerated social injustice and are breaking Britain apart.
Article: 29.10.23 The Learning Disability Challenge Why would we trust you when you can’t even change the words you use to describe us.
Article: 28.10.23 Ecosystems of the Future No one organisation, leader or solution will make the changes we need, only cooperative interaction.
Article: 11.08.23 Care vs Work Care offers a hopeful alternative to the destructive concept of productive work that is dominant today.
Article: 12.07.23 UBI and Homelessness Reflections on the potential to pilot UBI and reduce homelessness, following a roundtable discussion in Manchester.
Article: 12.07.23 Acronyms We all use acronyms but surely it makes more sense to lose them?
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