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Found: 266 Pages: 1 2 3 | show all

• Campaign for a Fair Society

  The Campaign wants power and control to shift from government to citizens, families and communities.

  Visit page | 14/05/12

• Principles of Self-Directed Support

  These seven principles provide the ethical context for the implementation of Self-Directed Support as a system for reforming care and support.

  Visit page | 14/05/12

• West Lancashire Peer Support

  Les Scaife describes how the West Lancashire Peer Support Group was born and the work it continues to do.

  Visit page | 13/05/12

• Is It Only Me?

  S.H.Barnett wonders why personal budgets which promise so much have largely failed to deliver.

  Visit page | 12/05/12

• Are Institutions Still With Us?

  Sam Sly explores the problems that leave too many people with complex needs in long-term institutional care.

  Visit page | 11/05/12

• Full Citizenship for People with Intellectual Disabilities

  An interview with Simon Duffy for the Finnish Year Book on Intellectual Disabilities on the nature of citizenship.

  Visit page | 09/05/12

• Manavodaya

  An outline of the innovative work of Manavodaya.

  Visit page | 08/05/12

• Personalisation and Human Rights

  In this paper the authors argue that the broad policy concepts and detailed practice of personalisation are rooted in, and informed by, human rights.

  Visit page | 01/05/12

• Self-Directed Support in North Lanarkshire

  This site contains information about Self Directed Support in North Lanarkshire.

  Visit page | 26/04/12

• Relative Matters - The essential guide to finding your way around the care system for older people

  Fellow of the Centre Chris Moon-Willems has published an important new book on care and support for older people.

  Visit page | 11/04/12

• The Journey to Citizenship - Deinstitutionalisation in Finland

  Finland is beginning to close its institutions for people with learning difficulties. Simon Duffy explores what can be learned about moving more quickly towards a…

  Visit page | 02/04/12

• The Reality of Disability Benefits

  One man's experience of disability benefits.

  Visit page | 30/03/12

• Talks at Launch of Manifesto

  Baroness Sheila Hollins, Kaliya Franklin and Simon Duffy talked at the launch of the Campaign's Manifesto for a Fair Society at the House of Lords on 12th March 2012.

  Visit page | 12/03/12

• BBC Midlands Interview

  Simon Duffy talks to Ed Stagg of the BBC about unfair cuts, the Campaign for a Fair Society and the need for positive reform of the welfare state.

  Visit page | 12/03/12

• Campaigning for a Fair Society

  Simon Duffy gave one of the talks at the launch of the Manifesto for a Fair Society at the House of Lords on the 12th March.

  Visit page | 12/03/12

• Campaign Radio Interviews

  The Campaign for a Fair Society gave a series of radio interviews in advance of the launch of the 2012 Manifesto.

  Visit page | 09/03/12

• Who Really Benefits from Welfare?

  Simon Duffy looks at how the tax benefit system really works and wonders who are the real beneficiaries of this system?

  Visit page | 03/03/12

• ISFs in Action

  A research report by Sian Hoolahan of Choice Support describing the progress being made in Southwark using Individual Service Funds.

  Visit page | 02/03/12

• Goodbye Pat

  A moving tribute by David Towell on the death of his sister Patricia.

  Visit page | 01/03/12

• The Transition Companion

  Rob Hopkins explores how local communities can become more resilient and, in particular, less damaging to the global environment.

  Visit page | 01/03/12

• Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

  Tim Jackson's new book outlines the case for a new vision of prosperity, one linked to our meaningful participation in community life.

  Visit page | 08/02/12

• A Fair Society and the rights of disabled people

  A presentation given at a meeting of the Sheffield Green Party and the Campaign for a Fair Society.

  Visit page | 06/02/12

• Commissioning for Health and Well-Being

  This book explores what commissioning is, where it has come from and where it might be taking us.

  Visit page | 06/02/12

• A Fair Society: supported living and personalisation

  A presentation given at a conference for the Association for Supported Living and the Campaign for a Fair Society.

  Visit page | 02/02/12

• Principled Leadership for Sustainability

  Anna Eliatamby's book offers leaders and teams useful thoughts and frameworks to help them achieve greater awareness of the ethical dimension of their work.

  Visit page | 01/02/12

• Support Buddies - Peer Support Works

  The Personalisation Forum Group, winners of the Great British Care Awards People First Category, have published an account of their simple but powerful system of buddying.

  Visit page | 01/02/12

• Whole System Change: the meaning of personalisation

  This presentation was given at the national conference organised by North Lanarkshire Council on Self-Directed Support.

  Visit page | 30/01/12

• Learning the Art of Facilitation

  Carl Poll talks about Manavodaya, the art of facilitation and the importance of the inner dimension of work with real integrity.

  Visit page | 27/01/12

• Is Personalisation Dead?

  Simon Duffy explores some of the problems involved in implementing personalisation and the fundamental question of entitlements that remains unresolved in England.

  Visit page | 26/01/12

• Personalisation & Social Work

  A presentation given for Social Work students at the University of Huddersfield.

  Visit page | 17/01/12

• Personalisation Forum Group

  The PFG is made up of people living in Doncaster who suffer from poor mental health; they believe that this does not stop people from being full and productive members of society.

  Visit page | 16/01/12

• Citizenship & the Fair Society

  Simon Duffy introduces the objectives of the Campaign for a Fair Society and the case for radical reforms of the current social care and welfare systems.

  Visit page | 12/01/12

• Personalisation & Whole System Change

  Simon gave this talk in North Lanarkshire Council (the place where we first invented self-directed support).

  Visit page | 12/01/12

• 120,000 Reasons to Listen to Women

  Clare Hyde wonders whether the government's thinking about focusing on 'problem' families is informed by an understanding of the reality of domestic violence.

  Visit page | 21/12/11

• Integrating Mental Health Funding

  This essay argues that the integration of social care and healthcare funding in Mental Health is still a priority and highly feasible.

  Visit page | 21/12/11

• Individual Health Budgets Pilot Begins

  Beyond Limits and NHS Plymouth are piloting an exciting model of service delivery to ensure that people with challenging behaviour do not end up in damaging institutions.

  Visit page | 20/12/11

• Self-Determination Doesn't End as We Age

  Terry Lynch shares his and his mother's experiences of growing older and maintaining dignity and self-determination through independent living.

  Visit page | 19/12/11

• Creating Stronger and more Inclusive Communities

  A paper setting out some lessons for positive action in the context of austerity drawn from five agencies across the UK.

  Visit page | 18/12/11

• Whose risk is it anyway?

  Jon Glasby explores the concept of risk and its relationship to personalisation in social care.

  Visit page | 18/12/11

• Personalisation in a Time of Cuts

  Lawyer Kate Whittaker describes the conflict between the current drive to cut social care spending in the UK and the application of personalisation.

  Visit page | 15/12/11

• Why The Third Way Failed

  Bill Jordan's book describes the development and failure of the 'Third Way' and it latest iteration 'Big Society.'

  Visit page | 15/12/11

• Longcare Survivors - The Biography of a Care Scandal

  John Pring's powerful account of institutional abuse, its history and its long-term effects.

  Visit page | 15/12/11

• Flexible Funding Routes in Further Education

  Fellow Pippa Murray explains the funding routes that will allow for the development of more personalised and flexible education packages for young people.

  Visit page | 14/12/11

• Citizenship in Further Education

  Pippa Murray and Jane Shepherd set out the next steps for extending Personalised Transition into Further Education.

  Visit page | 14/12/11

• A Fair Income

  Simon Duffy explains how the tax-benefit system can be reformed to promote citizenship and families.

  Visit page | 30/11/11

• The Meaning of Dignity

  A short essay written by Simon Duffy on the true meaning of dignity.

  Visit page | 30/11/11

• Community Living

  An online magazine campaigning for equal citizenship for people with learning difficulties.

  Visit page | 30/11/11

• How To Step Out

  A guide to leading a mutual or social enterprise spin-out from the public sector written by Craig Dearden-Phillips of Stepping Out with Mark Griffiths.

  Visit page | 28/11/11

• Local Area Coordination Evaluation Report

  This report outlines early outcomes, lessons and opportunities from the first evaluation of Local Area Coordination in England.

  Visit page | 24/11/11

• Implementing Self-Directed Support

  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).

  Visit page | 24/11/11

• Know Your Rights

  A guide about rights for people with learning disabilities. It has been produced by The Association for Supported Living, Housing Options and The Campaign for a Fair Society.

  Visit page | 23/11/11

• Lives Unlimited: An evaluation of recent peer support projects - and what next?

  An evaluation of peer support project run by Lives Unlimited reinforces the value of building on lived experience and strong moral values.

  Visit page | 15/11/11

• Two Sides of the Same Coin

  Norma Curran explores two competing conceptions of the economic place of people with learning difficulties.

  Visit page | 15/11/11

• A Life That Works

  Norma Curran describes how community calendars can be used to help people get more full and interesting lives.

  Visit page | 08/11/11

• There is An Alternative

  A report from the Association for Supported Living (ASL) demonstrating how effective community-based support is for people with learning disabilities.

  Visit page | 07/11/11

• Personalised Transition Briefing

  This paper provides a clear account of the Personalised Transition that has transformed the post-school experience for many disabled young people.

  Visit page | 07/11/11

• The Personalisation Agenda: implications for the third sector

  The implications of personalisation for the third sector are explored in this clear overview.

  Visit page | 07/11/11

• Who cares? Policy proposals for the reform of long-term care

  The case for the reform of long-term care using self-directed support.

  Visit page | 07/11/11

• Wolf Wolfensberger - A Tribute

  Wolf Wolfensberger, the father of normalisation died in February 2011. Nan Carle pays tribute to the man she describes and 'the definitive agent of change'.

  Visit page | 07/11/11

• Fear is Always a Choice - What Will You Choose?

  A thoughtful insight on how we might manage our emotional wellbeing in difficult times written by Nan Carle.

  Visit page | 07/11/11

• Redesigning Welfare

  Presentation on the injustices designed into the current welfare system and the unfairness of government cuts that target disabled people.

  Visit page | 19/10/11

• NHS Values & Personalisation

  This short essay describes how to face some of the fears raised about the application of personalisation within the NHS.

  Visit page | 18/10/11

• Using an Individual Service Fund

  How one family used an Individual Service Fund (ISF) to improve care and support for their boys with complex needs.

  Visit page | 18/10/11

• Health Efficiencies

  This report describes the efficiencies possible in healthcare through the use of personalisation.

  Visit page | 17/10/11

• Disability & the Cuts

  Presentation given in Sheffield at joint event with Sheffield CIL and Church Action on Poverty.

  Visit page | 14/10/11

• Dying with Dignity

  This report explores how personalisation could transform end of life care. It outlines the approaches necessary to avoid the current high levels of undue hospitalisation.

  Visit page | 10/10/11

• Personalisation and Localism

  Talk given in Barnsley on personalisation and localism - and its real meaning.

  Visit page | 07/10/11

• Whole System Reform

  Presentation on welfare reform and employment support for disabled people.

  Visit page | 07/10/11

• The Architecture for Personalisation

  Presentation given in Sheffield to describe the necessary underpinnings for personalisation in social care.

  Visit page | 07/10/11

• Mental Health and Primary Care

  Presentation given at University of Birmingham on the need of mental health reform.

  Visit page | 07/10/11

• Citizenship Council

  Slides describing a different role for local government in the face of current cuts and on-going disempowerment.

  Visit page | 07/10/11

• Citizenship & Person-Centered Work

  This new book, edited by John O'Brien & Carol Blessing, shares the invaluable learning of leaders from the Inclusion Movement.

  Visit page | 06/10/11

• Manavodaya UK

  Manavodaya UK explores the real meaning of community and brings the UK together with colleagues in India to learn together.

  Visit page | 04/10/11

• Hands Off It's My Home Toolkit

  A toolkit for auditing support to people with learning disabilities and developing an outcomes-based action plan for citizenship.

  Visit page | 01/10/11

• Towards a Good Life?

  A discussion of the Western philosophical tradition and the lives of people with learning difficulties.

  Visit page | 30/09/11

• Peer Support

  How to promote peer support as an element of community brokerage and the new script for social work.

  Visit page | 19/09/11

• Community Engagement

  How to work with communities to identify information, advice and assistance for people controlling their own support.

  Visit page | 19/09/11

• A New Script for Social Work

  Social workers need to be released from a damaging set of bureaucratic structures that are making their work more difficult and undermining personalisation.

  Visit page | 18/09/11

• Conversations about Sustainable & Inclusive Communities

  A report exploring how local leaders influence the interaction of civil society to generate action toward inclusion and sustainability.

  Visit page | 05/09/11

• Six Practices for Creative Engagement

  Six practices for creating engagement in the development of inclusive and sustainable communities.

  Visit page | 05/09/11

• Advancing Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society

  Reflections on a journey in Latin America in Spring 2011 where the authors examine different experiences of inclusion.

  Visit page | 05/09/11

• Marie - A Life Moving Forward

  The true story of one woman's ongoing fight against the system and her eventual triumph against all the odds.

  Visit page | 25/08/11

• Positively Local

  John Gillespie, with Susanne Hughes, describes how community development and improvement must begin by putting local people in control.

  Visit page | 07/08/11

• C2 Model

  The C2 Model is a positive approach to bring about real community change by supporting local people to lead the process of change themselves.

  Visit page | 07/08/11

• The Key to Support Planning

  Liam Toner explains how support planning could become genuinely empowering rather than just another bureaucratic hurdle.

  Visit page | 06/07/11

• Enjoying the Rollercoaster Ride

  One mother's story of her rollercoaster journey and the inspirational achievements of her son.

  Visit page | 04/07/11

• Cuts to UK Benefits

  Ben Baumberg of the LSE provides an overview of the cuts in UK benefits and how they target disabled people.

  Visit page | 29/06/11

• Developing Family Leadership

  How you can really help families take the lead - without burdening them or blaming them - but by building new relationships built upon equality and mutual respect.

  Visit page | 29/06/11

• Response to SEN & Disability Green Paper

  Pippa Murray argues that the current education system discriminates against disabled people and suggests amendments to current policy.

  Visit page | 29/06/11

• WomenCentre Slides

  WomenCentre is one the most effective and innovative organisations in the UK - combining personalisation with community action.

  Visit page | 27/06/11

• Perspectives on Welfare Reform

  Simon Duffy explores the strengths and weaknesses of current efforts at welfare reform in the UK and offers an alternative approach.

  Visit page | 23/06/11

• Making Social Innovation Real

  Simon Duffy describes the barriers that face social innovators and how to overcome the obstacles to reform.

  Visit page | 23/06/11

• Personalised Transition & Professionals

  Pippa Murray explores the change in role and relationship for professionals as they embrace Personalised Transition.

  Visit page | 23/06/11

• Introduction to Personalised Transition

  Pippa Murray outlines the benefits of Personalised Transition and how it works in practice.

  Visit page | 23/06/11

• Help and Connect

  A new form of community-brokerage called Help and Connect which is being piloted by Skills for People in Newcastle.

  Visit page | 21/06/11

• Citizenship - the missing key to public policy

  Simon Duffy explains how the notion of citizenship might offer a more positive approach to welfare reform than current meritocratic models.

  Visit page | 17/06/11

• What We Are Campaigning For

  Simon Duffy outlines the case for radical reform of the current system and opposing the unfair cuts that target disabled people and other important groups.

  Visit page | 17/06/11

• Real Welfare Reform

  Simon Duffy proposes a different model of welfare reform - focusing on income security and fair taxes for the poor.

  Visit page | 17/06/11

• Overcoming the Barriers to Innovation

  Exploring how social innovation works and the barriers it faces within the welfare system.

  Visit page | 16/06/11

• Realising the Benefits of Personalisation

  Personalisation in health and social care can be implemented well or badly - and there are many temptations to poor implementation.

  Visit page | 16/06/11

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