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Lou Townson talks about her experience as a leader and an advocate in the self-advocacy movement.
Article 2022-01-25 15:40:00
Public expenditure cuts by the UK government will target disabled people, older people who need extra help, poor families and people with mental health problems.
Article 2011-02-03 09:52:00
Kate Fulton explores what support providers in Australia should focus on to deliver better outcomes for those who will access support through the NDIS.
Article 2016-07-04 17:25:00
Robin Jackson reviews The Future of the Professions: How technology will transform the work of human experts.
Reviews 2016-10-24 10:52:00
What can one man’s personal reminiscences tell us about our community’s assets and losses?
Reviews 2023-01-18 11:23:00
New Prospects shifted their focus on advocacy for inclusion towards building community with encouraging results.
Inspiration 2017-02-16 08:21:00
David Zigmond reviews the film I, Daniel Blake and argues that it reveals, not only the cost of austerity, but also the industrialisation and automation of our relationships.
Article 2017-05-26 12:08:00
Alain Catzeflis argues that the outsourcing of public services to organisations like Motability has created a bloated and corrupt system which serves the public poorly.
Article 2018-03-25 15:27:00
This ancient text reveals a lost approach to economics thinking that we need to rediscover.
Reviews 2023-02-28 17:27:00
An anonymous account of the real-life failure of self-directed support for a family who needed help.
Story 2012-09-24 14:35:00
Sarah Taylor explains why ageing and the 'problems' associated with care for older people are not so much 'wicked problems' but functions of faulty thinking.
Article 2016-02-15 17:56:00
Katrina Kurowski shares her experience as a leader and an advocate in the self-advocacy movement.
Article 2021-11-24 17:22:00
Darwin Care support people with learning disabilities and autism in Dorset and use ISFs.
Article 2024-03-10 11:22:00
Sam Sly shares her learning through helping people to leave ATUs and return to a real life and a home of their own in the communities they came from.
Article 2014-08-20 13:31:00
Rowena Hallé shares Jim's story, arguing that we must support every person to share their gifts and value everyone as equal citizens.
Story 2017-02-03 18:26:00
David Zigmond asks whether there are not costs to setting arbitrary standards for health and safety regardless of context.
Article 2017-04-20 14:35:00
Three stories from Finland of how self-directed support is beginning to work in practice plus other resources
Story 2019-12-19 15:07:00
Simon Duffy gave this talk to the LAC Network and argues that citizenship is the ideal the world needs today.
Article 2021-01-14 12:22:00
Vinesh Kumar explains why the Avarind Eye Clinic has much to teach the NHS and western medicine in general.
Article 2013-11-12 12:43:00
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Simon Duffy reviews Frances Ryan's important book which describes the devastating impact of the UK Government's attack on disabled people since 2010.
Reviews 2019-07-24 10:43:00
Are we achieving the goals set out in 1989 by the UN in The Convention on the Rights of the Child?
Article 2019-10-25 10:50:00
Ken Loach's film reveals the brutal reality of the modern gig economy.
Reviews 2020-11-09 12:59:00
Simon Duffy looks at how the tax benefit system really works and wonders who are the real beneficiaries of this system?
Article 2012-03-03 14:13:00
Stephen Finlayson argues it is time to use ordinary language that creates ordinary responses, to stop worrying about risk and start talking about our worries.
Article 2015-02-24 16:57:00
Simon Duffy summarises the conclusion of his philosophical essay Citizenship and the Welfare State and what it means in practice.
Article 2016-03-22 23:50:00
Bob Rhodes offers a vision for personalisation in social care that can help us return to community and citizenship.
Books 2011-01-04 10:48:00
The Centre and Radical Visions publish a guide for helping people return home from…
News 2021-03-10
Malcolm Henry sets out an argument for a Universal Basic Income based on his analysis of the failings of the banking system.
Article 2014-03-17 15:45:00
Dr Henry Tam believes that the governance of welfare has to be conducted transparently and inclusively. Here he sets out his ideas on how this can be achieved.
Article 2015-10-02 17:36:00
In his sixth and final blog from Finland Simon Duffy reflects on the limits of personal budgets and the need to understand why things change.
Article 2016-05-06 14:29:00
Poverty isolates and divides us. It leaves us thinking we are not good enough and we are too poor to spend time with friends or family writes Simon Duffy.
Article 2016-07-19 15:41:00
This report explains why integration between health and social care is not desirable, setting out a clear vision for reforming social care in its own right.
Paper 2018-03-26 23:44:00
Reflections on the potential to pilot UBI and reduce homelessness, following a roundtable discussion in Manchester.
Article 2023-07-12 17:25:00
David Towell reviews Tim Jackson's book on how to bring care to the centre of our economy.
Reviews 2025-06-17 14:32:00
Rev. Nicolson is refusing to pay his Council Tax in solidarity with all those harmed by…
News 2017-07-11
Chris Moon-Willems, an independent specialist in care for older people, assesses the Government's plans to reform social care.
Article 2012-07-25 14:38:00
Simon Duffy explores the unfulfilled potential of personalisation.
Article 2014-02-13 16:04:00
Robin Jackson and Maria Lyons are the editors of a series of essays reviewing the history of services for people with intellectual disabilities.
Reviews 2016-12-16 15:02:00
Terry Lynch explores how to avoid those desperate placements in residential care, unnecessary hospitalisation or institutionalisation. Older people often need modest levels of pragmatic help - built around their motivations, relationships, communities and homes.
Article 2010-11-03 22:01:00
A summary of a talk given by Dr Simon Duffy at the meeting of Churches Together in South Yorkshire, Spring Forum in April 2013.
Article 2013-11-12 19:27:00
Fellows Day 2012
Article 2012-09-19 15:43:00
Don Derrett tells the story of self direct - how it developed, what it achieved and why finally, it closed.
Article 2013-11-13 16:46:00
8 reasons why disability rights activists should support constitutional reform.
Article 2018-06-02 15:17:00
We are a global community working for a world where everyone matters.
Article 2022-01-14 10:42:00
Dorset have established a ground-breaking commissioning strategy enabling people with learning disabilities & mental health problems to manage their personal budgets.
Article 2017-03-21 15:24:00
Solutions to sustainability require the involvement of all citizens: pooling knowledge, skills and creativity.
Article 2023-11-02 12:29:00
David Zigmond describes his final reflections as CQC closes down his GP practice for its refusal to be fully compliant with CQC regulations.
Story 2017-03-06 15:02:00
Self-Directed Support Resources in Italian
Inspiration 2019-12-19 17:41:00
David Zigmond explores the historical parallels between today and the public health crises of the nineteenth-century and the lessons for the NHS.
Article 2020-05-12 14:53:00
