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A new and exciting way for early intervention professionals and peer parents to work with families.
Training 2025-05-19 11:07:00
Alicia Hull describes how governments around the world are increasingly treating ordinary people as slaves.
Article 2025-11-10 11:45:00
This short essay offers some thoughts about the lessons other countries might want to draw from the English experience of implementing self-directed support (SDS).
Article 2011-11-24 18:40:00
The Centre has published a major new book which provides an authoritative overview of how the UK…
News 2019-09-25
Gavin Barker outlines an emerging strategy for Labour members to put PR and Constitutional…
News 2020-01-28
Sam Sly writes about how important love is, in all its forms, to having a great life.
Article 2013-07-31 13:01:00
Mary O'Hara's book describes the many dimensions of 'austerity' and how it is affecting the lives of ordinary people in the UK.
Books 2014-05-26 10:54:00
Sam Sly shares her enthusiasm for the creation of a National Association of Quality Checkers.
Article 2014-08-20 12:29:00
Sam Sly describes where the Keys to Citizenship came from and how they've changed over time.
Article 2015-05-12 16:20:00
Respected economist Kate Raworth shows how sustainability and social justice can be used to evaluate economic success.
Article 2019-02-02 13:45:00
An open letter demanding radical constitutional reform in the UK.
Project 2019-05-14 17:36:00
Gary Wootton argues that we can do so much more to improve society by ensuring that the private sector works to serve the greater good.
Article 2019-09-17 17:08:00
Stef Benstead found that many people, like Christian Conservatives, care about poverty but have false beliefs about why it exists, this inspired her to write Second Class Citizens.
Article 2019-12-01 15:20:00
Bob Rhodes reflects on the ups and downs of building a fairer society amidst the craziness of the current system.
Article 2012-09-25 16:57:00
A Finnish community hub which is helping people with intellectual disabilities create music, media and so much more.
Inspiration 2013-02-18 13:24:00
Simon Schwab outlines the principles that should underpin the reform of NDIS.
Article 2014-02-14 13:06:00
Robin Jackson sets out the wide-ranging concerns at the decision of the Scottish Government to put in place a 'named person' for every child in Scotland.
Paper 2016-06-20 15:21:00
Tim Keilty of New Prospects, a Citizen Network group member based in the North East of England, has put together a list of resources that they use when training their managers.
Training 2017-02-15 13:28:00
Marc Stears proposes that the values and visions of ordinary people carry within them the possibility of radical social change.
Reviews 2021-06-17 14:45:00
We have lost sight of the true meaning of care and care homes are big business, cut off from our communities.
Article 2021-07-19 10:49:00
Bradford began the destruction of municipal socialism in the pretence of improving local government.
Reviews 2022-10-14 13:25:00
Commissioning bodies cannot provide the kind of doctors we want and need.
Article 2023-03-01 17:03:00
The Centre for Welfare Reform and the University of Birmingham have just published proposals…
News 2011-12-01
Liam Toner explains how support planning could become genuinely empowering rather than just another bureaucratic hurdle.
Article 2011-07-06 10:18:00
Policy Paper 15 from the University of Birmingham's Health Services Management Centre on developing a new adult social care offer.
Paper 2014-02-03 10:39:00
David Towell describes a great innovation that provides employment for disabled people whilst supporting sustainability and social justice.
Inspiration 2014-01-07 19:16:00
Jim Elder-Woodward explains to the Prime Minister the gross injustice of giving subsidies to employers, unless they employ personal assistants.
Article 2014-04-10 13:52:00
Rebecca Allen explains what happens when a student nurse falls ill and needs assistance from the benefit system in the UK.
Story 2016-03-22 16:42:00
In this powerful essay David Zigmond eviscerates the Internal Market which is choking the NHS to death.
Article 2017-03-21 15:38:00
Carl Poll & Varun Vidyarthi describe the quiet revolution of participatory development in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Article 2017-11-01 11:24:00
This report pulls together multiple resources to present a snapshot of Invisible Disabilities in New Zealand.
Paper 2017-08-02 18:04:00
Written for Now Then Magazine, Simon Duffy reflects on the Centre's ten years in Sheffield.
Article 2019-07-03 12:39:00
The lack of democratic constitution, rooted in human rights, creates a fundamental problem in the UK.
Article 2021-11-02 17:40:00
How to write for Citizen Network.
Handbook 2021-01-03 17:58:00
Flexible approaches to support and contracting in health and social care services.
Project 2016-01-04 12:20:00
Nan Carle reminds us how John O'Brien helped us escape institutional thinking and imagine a world of inclusion.
Article 2025-11-17 15:21:00
Major new report outlines the increasing crisis in social care
News 2015-03-26
Proposal launched for groundbreaking Basic Income pilot in Manchester.
News 2025-02-10
9 distinctive and essential characteristics of a National Health Service according to Dr Julian Tudor Hart.
Article 2018-08-06 16:09:00
Cormac Russell's inspiring book describes the limitations of current models of public policy and offers a positive community model in their place.
Reviews 2020-06-22 16:06:00
Bureaucracies and regulatory control systems undermine important social innovations such as person-centred planning.
Paper 2019-11-29 15:23:00
Important new report by Spartacus Network now published
News 2014-04-09
This paper is a working document to help authorities 'rescript' their social work role - to make it more positive, enabling and effective.
Article 2011-05-10 16:35:00
It's time to think differently about economics and Sheffield has a good heritage to build on.
News 2023-03-24
Fran Macilvey describes the reality of work for many disabled people and the barriers created by negative attitudes and inflexibility.
Article 2017-01-11 12:17:00
This strategy will be a strategic focus for Citizen Network in the years ahead.
News 2025-09-22
Opus is an exciting social innovation in Sheffield helping people to build lives of meaning.
Inspiration 2018-08-07 17:07:00
A statement from the Centre for the #WOWdebate on the Government's reasons for refusing to carry out a Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA).
Paper 2018-12-17 14:32:00
Tim Keilty shares how self-directed support can help families: stay safe, and avoid their children going into care.
Paper 2020-01-28 11:38:00
UBI means we can respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution by growing neighbourhood support for work.
Paper 2022-07-18 10:52:00
