children and families

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Training: 19.05.25 Pictability Training A new and exciting way for early intervention professionals and peer parents to work with families.
Training: 04.04.25 Now & Next Youth Quest Program An evidence-based learning programme for people aged 15-21 years – take part.
Article: 06.03.25 Fixing Social Care Funding More money will help, but it is not enough, the whole social care system needs to change.
Reviews: 25.11.24 UK Education: Still Awaiting an Inclusive Future David Towell reviews two books focusing on the development of inclusive education in England.
Paper: 08.10.24 Whole System Change in Education David Towell and colleagues seek to draw lessons from recent experience in La Pampa, Argentina.
Paper: 10.09.24 Care (Education) & Treatment Reviews and Dynamic Support Registers Practical advice from families can ensure people with learning disabilities or autism avoid institutional care.
Paper: 09.09.24 The Antecedents of An Ordinary Life 1946 - 1979 Deinstitutionalisation and the Ordinary Life movement emerged from a long history of reform.
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.
Paper: 04.03.24 Culture Matters A report sharing how culture can impact parents who have children with autism or learning disabilities.
Story: 13.10.23 Kuza Nila: Meeting Your Purpose Eagle Wings works with young people in schools and communities in Kenya.
Film: 26.08.23 The Value of Peer Support Peer support is one of the best ways to liberate the potential for citizens to change the world for the better.
Article: 20.09.22 Reimagining Disability in Family Life The ideal of citizenship helps a father reset his relationship with his daughter with disabilities.
Story: 07.03.22 Molly's Poem Everyone in life is dealt a different card. Some have life easy, some have it hard.
Story: 25.01.22 A Dark Childhood Claire Louise hopes her writing will help others reach out and get help.
Article: 20.07.21 Redesigning the Benefits System with Young People in Mind Poverty for children in the UK is growing and its time for a revolutionary shift towards Universal Basic Income (UBI).
Paper: 20.07.21 What Can We Do With Those Families? Too often families are treated disrespectfully, even by those seeking to advance inclusion or person-centred work.
Reviews: 04.06.21 Those Who Can, Teach This book is an eloquent testimony to the importance of investing in quality education to enrich the futures of all…
Paper: 02.03.21 Pregnant in An Age of Compliance An exploration of pregnancy amidst the myths of medical technology and power.
Paper: 19.01.21 Los Maestros Como Líderes Una breve guía para lograr una educación inclusiva y de calidad para todos.
Paper: 15.01.21 Teachers As Leaders A short guide to achieving inclusive and quality education for all.
Article: 17.11.20 Caregiving: A Puzzling Problem Beverley Smith explores the perverse way in which care is undervalued, discounted and the perverse policies which…
Paper: 21.01.20 ALLFIE Manifesto for Inclusive Education The Alliance for Inclusive Education's (ALLFIE) manifesto demands Government moves to a fully inclusive education…
Slide: 28.10.19 Adventurous Social Work The reality of self-directed support for social workers and helping families to develop practical solutions.
Article: 25.10.19 How Are the Children? Are we achieving the goals set out in 1989 by the UN in The Convention on the Rights of the Child?
Paper: 02.06.19 Estrategias para la Transformación Escolar David Towell comparte otras notas sobre el desarrollo de estrategias para lograr la transformación escolar desde…
Paper: 02.06.19 12 Lecciones de América Latina Stephanía Duarte Mora y David Towell exploran cómo las asociaciones familiares nacionales están promoviendo el…
Paper: 29.05.19 Strategies for School Transformation David Towell shares further notes on developing strategies for achieving school transformation from within.
Paper: 29.05.19 12 Lessons from Latin America Stephanía Duarte Mora and David Towell explore how national family associations are promoting educational change…
Paper: 07.03.19 Money as a Human Right Maria Lyons combines an analysis of economics with an understanding of inclusion to offer a radical argument for basic…
Article: 12.02.19 Childcare Policy and the Economy Childcare policy in the UK wrongly assumes that professionalised solutions are always best for children and…
Paper: 04.02.19 Transgender Children and Social Work This paper explores how social workers and professionals can approach an understanding of the complexity of working…
Paper: 21.01.19 Life after Violence An Inclusion Europe report on how women with intellectual disabilities cope with the violence they have experienced…
Training: 06.12.18 Manavodaya Institute Manavodaya means Human Awakening and the Manavodaya Institute for Participatory Development is a powerful engine…
Paper: 25.09.18 Careless Care When the state takes children into its care it has a responsibility to support them into adulthood and as they become…
Paper: 03.05.18 Now and Next The innovative leadership pipeline for families with young children with disability or delay developed by Plumtree.
Paper: 29.03.18 Families As Leaders Three mothers of disabled children share their stories and the strategies they are pursuing to transform public…
Reviews: 15.01.18 The Great Troubled Families Fraud Simon Duffy reviews Professor Gregg's book on the fraud and dishonesty behind the Troubled Families Programme.
Article: 01.11.17 Manavodaya - A Quiet Revolution Carl Poll & Varun Vidyarthi describe the quiet revolution of participatory development in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Paper: 16.10.17 Promoviendo la educación inclusiva Este último folleto usa el ejemplo de la provincia canadiense de Nueva Brunswick para ofrecer un marco para…
Inspiration: 17.08.17 Manavodaya - Eight Steps in Action Varun Vidyarthi outlines the Eights Steps in Action - the actions that underpin effective self-discipline for…
Graphic: 05.06.17 Real Poverty Poverty is not just lack of money, its also isolation, disadvantage and exclusion
Paper: 22.04.17 Advancing Inclusive Education Gordon Porter and David Towell offer a framework for transforming public education systems so as to provide inclusive…
Reviews: 11.01.17 Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family Maria Lyons reviews a book which explores the celebrates caregiving as an essential role for men and women.
Article: 26.09.16 What Austerity Means for Women Brooke Bates explores the impact of austerity on women in the UK at the level of the individual and civil society.
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: 16.05.16 Taking Forward Women Centred Solutions This guide shows how gendered approaches can help unlock solutions to complex problems, delivering multiple…
Paper: 12.05.16 Siete Claves para la Educación Inclusiva David Towell ofrece una perspectiva internacional sobre el desarrollo de la educación inclusiva.
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