social care

social work | self-directed support | personalised support | social services | personal budgets | individual service funds | commissioning | residential care | regulation | domiciliary care

Paper: 06.07.25

Always a New Adventure Leaders at the Cheltenham Summer Institute set out a vision for putting humanity at the heart of care.

Reviews: 17.06.25

The Care Economy David Towell reviews Tim Jackson's book on how to bring care to the centre of our economy.

Article: 06.05.25

Direct Payments and Flexibility A review of direct payment policies across English councils, identifying opportunities for more flexibility.

Books: 29.04.25

Everyday Citizenship Available to buy everywhere now!

Paper: 16.04.25

From National to Neighbourhood Can support providers become agents of citizenship and community development?

Paper: 16.04.25

Building Bridges Second Edition A paper exploring how to help people leave Assessment and Treatment Units (ATUs).

Article: 18.03.25

Neighbourhoods of Care During the Fearless Cities South Yorkshire Summit hundreds of people met to consider how we can transform care.

Article: 17.03.25

Developing a Self-Directed Support Strategy With the right approach councils can achieve better outcomes and reduced costs.

Article: 14.03.25

Independence for People with Complex Needs Communication between people, carers and professionals is the key to independent living.

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.

Article: 05.03.25

One Size Does Not Fit All - CQC Inflexibility The registration process for care does not promote good quality personalised support

Article: 14.02.25

Hybrid Direct Payment Support Services This article explores how councils can benefit from a hybrid approach to direct payments.

Article: 14.02.25

Outsourcing Direct Payment Support Services This article examines the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing direct payment support services.

Article: 14.02.25

Insourcing Direct Payment Support Services This article explores the benefits and drawbacks of insourcing direct payment support services.

Community Wardens Community Wardens in Doncaster are helping citizens to care for each other in their neighbourhoods.

Article: 03.12.24

Individual Service Funds Explainer The basic building blocks of offering personalised support with ISFs and what it means in practice.

Paper: 28.11.24

My Support Money This template helps people be clear about how their personal budget is being used.

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.

Paper: 18.11.24

Individual Service Funds Business Case Template A practical, structured guide for Local Authorities considering implementing Individual Service Funds (ISFs).

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.

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.

Books: 09.08.24

Second Class Citizens An authoritative overview of how Austerity targeted sick and disabled people in the UK.

Article: 24.07.24

Developing Neighbourhood Care in South Yorkshire Leaders in South Yorkshire gathered together to begin developing a neighbourhood care strategy.

Article: 10.06.24

All Hail Citizenship! The keys to citizenship can help improve services for people with disabilities in many ways.

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.

Paper: 24.04.24

Capacity Building for Valued Lives A report on the work of the National Alliance of Capacity-building Organisations (NACBO).

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: 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.

Ross: It's My Life iDirect support Ross to live his own life in his community.

William: It's My Life iDirect support William to live his own life in his community.

Kerry-Ann: It's My Life iDirect support Kerry-Ann to live her own life in her community.

Handbook: 10.01.24

How to Support Everyday Citizenship How to share the book Everyday Citizenship.

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: 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.

Paper: 15.09.23

The Problem with Quality of Life Disability strategy should be built around an ambitious vision for deinstitutionalisation and citizenship for all.

Paper: 27.08.23

Redesigning the NDIS A vision for reforming the NDIS as a regenerative system of support co-designed with people with disabilities.

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.

Paper: 14.08.23

Self-Directed Support Scotland There has been significant progress in Scotland in reforming disability services, but major challenges remain.

Article: 12.07.23

Acronyms We all use acronyms but surely it makes more sense to lose them?

Article: 06.06.23

The Path to Community It's Our Community in Sheffield explored how to reform health and social care from the grassroots.

Paper: 15.05.23

Individual Service Funds at iDirect iDirect share the experiences of 3 individuals they support who use individual service funds.

Article: 15.05.23

Transform Your Language! Is it really too much trouble just to say or write the words?

Paper: 14.04.23

Health Care Services in Crisis Three senior NHS consultants explain that the NHS crisis is about its culture and organisation not just money.

Article: 20.03.23

The Social Role of Friend Rules that restrict friendship between staff and people with disabilities are harmful and irrational.

Paper: 04.03.23

Indvidual Service Funds in Residential Care Service providers can do much more to offer people flexible support and personal budgets.

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