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• 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

• Connections that matter

  The impact of Grapevine's work on people with learning disabilities and their families.

  Visit page | 14/06/11

• Personalisation Masterclass

  A presentation given in Dumfries & Galloway exploring the many different aspects of personalisation in practice.

  Visit page | 14/06/11

• Launch of the Centre

  A presentation given at the Westminster launch of the Centre.

  Visit page | 14/06/11

• AiM - Artists in Mind

  AiM is an arts charity supporting people who experience acute and enduring mental health problems.

  Visit page | 14/06/11

• Salvere

  Salvere is an innovative social enterprise designed to deliver a range of different forms of personalised support.

  Visit page | 13/06/11

• The Path to Fairness

  Pippa Murray calls for radical change to welfare and support services for families of children with disabilities and special education needs.

  Visit page | 13/06/11

• WomenCentre Model

  WomenCentre has worked out how to integrate personalisation and collective action in a sophisticated and dynamic model of support.

  Visit page | 12/06/11

• Revisiting Barclay

  Bob Rhodes and Ralph Broad argue that social work and social care should return to the thinking set out in the Barclay report and renew their commitment to community.

  Visit page | 12/06/11

• Women at the Centre

  Simon Duffy and Clare Hyde explain how WomenCentre achieves its astonishing outcomes and explore the difficulties faced by innovative organisations in the welfare system.

  Visit page | 12/06/11

• The Campaign for a Fair Society

  Simon Duffy explains why the cuts planned by central government are so unfair and what they reveal about the failings of the current system.

  Visit page | 07/06/11

• Commissioning for Health Improvement

  Brian Fisher describes a model developed in Lewisham which could shift healthcare away from institutional and hospital-based provision towards health improvement.

  Visit page | 05/06/11

• The Coalition Programme: A New Vision for Britain or Politics as Usual?

  Professors Taylor-Gooby and Stoker examine the extreme cuts in public services planned in the UK and explore their meaning.

  Visit page | 03/06/11

• Care and Support or a Fascist Plot?

  Norma Curran explains the roots of Training in Systematic Instruction (TSI) and the failure to focus on building people's skills in many support services.

  Visit page | 27/05/11

• Simplify the RAS

  Resource Allocation Systems (RAS) have become too complex. Barnsley and The Centre for Welfare Reform are exploring a radically simplified version of the RAS.

  Visit page | 22/05/11

• Personalisation - Progress & Error

  Presentation to regional leaders in Yorkshire & Humber on the progress of personalisation and the challenges ahead for both extending its scope and ensuring its…

  Visit page | 12/05/11

• Launch of Scottish Campaign

  Simon Duffy speaks at the launch of the Scottish Campaign for a Fair Society about how personalisation is being used as a cover for cuts and why the plans of central government are so…

  Visit page | 12/05/11

• Do's and Don'ts for a New Script

  This paper is a working document to help authorities 'rescript' their social work role - to make it more positive, enabling and effective.

  Visit page | 10/05/11

• Citizenship - the missing key to public policy and welfare reform

  Dr Simon Duffy presented these slides at the Annual Conference for the Masters in Public Administration at the Catholic University of Porto in May 2011.

  Visit page | 09/05/11

• Citizenship - the missing key to public policy and welfare reform

  Presentation for the Masters in Public Administration Annual Conference on the value of citizenship in public policy and welfare reform.

  Visit page | 09/05/11

• Using the Law to Fight the Cuts

  This guide sets out the most important principles of the law in England which can be used to fight the cuts to services for disabled people and protect human rights.

  Visit page | 03/05/11

• Real Welfare Reform

  Real welfare reform is about designing a welfare state that ensures everyone gets the support they need to live good and positive lives as active citizens.

  Visit page | 01/05/11

• The Prospects for Radical Welfare Reform

  Phillip Collins, Leader Writer for The Times, Chair of DEMOS and ex-Speech Writer for Tony Blair, reflects on the complexity of welfare reform.

  Visit page | 28/04/11

• About the Centre for Welfare Reform

  Fellows of the Centre for Welfare Reform discuss social justice, citizenship and the reason for setting up the Centre.

  Visit page | 28/04/11

• From Unfair Cuts to a Fair Society

  This paper sets out the case for radical reform of the system of support to older and disabled people, and all those needing on-going support.

  Visit page | 28/04/11

• Local Justice

  Clare Hyde argues that the current criminal justice system is failing communities by drawing resources into damaging and inefficient systems.

  Visit page | 12/04/11

• A New Reablement Journey

  This document describes a very different way of maximising independence, seeing it as something that should underpin everything we do.

  Visit page | 08/04/11

• Planning with Families

  Pippa Murray summarises the main things you need to do to help families plan for themselves and disabled family members.

  Visit page | 03/04/11

• Cuts - Yes, Minister

  Geoff Tudor imagines the discussions that led to plans to cut mobility allowance for people inside residential care homes.

  Visit page | 02/04/11

• Social Work Rescript

  The role of the care manager needs to be radically redesigned in order to make best use of social work skills and the new environment of personalisation.

  Visit page | 31/03/11

• A Fair Start - reforming services for disabled children and families

  Dr Pippa Murray founder of ibk initiatives and inventor of the Personalised Pathway on A Fair Start.

  Visit page | 24/03/11

• Family Income Security - reforming the tax-benefit system

  Dr Simon Duffy, Director of The Centre for Welfare Reform, explores how we could reform the income security of all families.

  Visit page | 24/03/11

• Outside the State - the civil society alternatives to government control

  Craig Dearden-Phillips MBE founder of Stepping Out and Speaking Up on Outside the State.

  Visit page | 24/03/11

• Introduction to the Centre

  Dr Simon Duffy, Director of The Centre for Welfare Reform describes the purpose and design of the Centre at its Westminster launch in March 2011.

  Visit page | 24/03/11

• Active Patient - the real power shift to citizens in the NHS

  Vidhya Alakeson of the Resolution Foundation describes how personalisation and the use of individual budgets in healthcare could promote better health and well-being.

  Visit page | 24/03/11

• Local Justice - family focused reinvestment

  Clare Hyde MBE of the WomenCentre and founder of The Foundation for Families on Local Justice.

  Visit page | 24/03/11

• Developing Policies for the Campaign for a Fair Society

  Slides that explore the development of personalisation, the unfairness of the current cuts and the kind of policies we need to develop in the future.

  Visit page | 22/03/11

• In Memory of Wolf Wolfensberger

  A man who probably did more to change the understandings and situations for disabled and vulnerable people and their whole societies than anyone you could have met.

  Visit page | 21/03/11

• Competency in Practice-Based Commissioning

  A summary of effective approaches to Patient and Public Involvement for GP consortia.

  Visit page | 21/03/11

• The Spirit Level: why equality is better for everyone

  Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett demonstrate that inequalities damage the wellbeing of everyone in society - not just the poor. This important book undermines the myth that…

  Visit page | 20/03/11

• New Script for Social Work

  Personalisation and the best use of social work skills demands a new script to replace the broken system of care management.

  Visit page | 20/03/11

• Proactive Primary Care

  An example of how UK primary care can offer safer more supportive personalised care whilst saving money at the same time.

  Visit page | 15/03/11

• Unfair Cuts

  25% of the cuts are falling on 3% of the population, children, adults and older people with the most severed disabilities

  Visit page | 14/03/11

• How can we save the big society?

  Gabriel Chanan and Colin Miller argue that the Big Society project will fail unless it focuses on real community development and volunteering.

  Visit page | 14/03/11

• Personalisation & Young People

  An exploration of the impact that personalisation could have on support and services for young people.

  Visit page | 09/03/11

• A Fair Society - Tizard Annual Lecture

  Simon Duffy gave the Annual Tizard Lecture on the 4th March at the University of Kent. He explored the nature of a fair society, the limits of personalisation and the thinking…

  Visit page | 08/03/11

• A Fair Society and the Limits of Personalisation

  This discussion paper describes how the current cuts that target disabled people reflect deep flaws within the welfare system and sets out the case for more fundamental reforms.

  Visit page | 04/03/11

• A Fair Society - Tizard Annual Lecture

  These slides were given as part of the 2011 Tizard Lecture given by Simon Duffy on A Fair Society & the Limits of Personalisation. They describe both the cuts facing disabled…

  Visit page | 04/03/11

• UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

  This is a powerful vision of the opportunities and support which should be available to disabled people and their families, based on a commitment to equal citizenship.

  Visit page | 03/02/11

• Unfair Cuts

  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.

  Visit page | 03/02/11

• Unfair Cuts in Detail

  The current social care system in the UK is deeply unfair and needs reforming; however current efforts by Central Government seem self-defeating.

  Visit page | 03/02/11

• Changes to Housing Funding

  Housing Options explains how current changes to the funding of housing will reduce housing mobility, home ownership and undermine supported living.

  Visit page | 02/02/11

• Personalised Education

  Personalised education is a widely stated ambition, and some local leaders are making progress, but central systems tend to undermine effective personalisation.

  Visit page | 01/02/11

• First and Last

  Mark Brend describes the history of the closure of the learning disabilities hospitals that were once used to segregate people with learning difficulties.

  Visit page | 31/01/11

• Basic Tasks for Service Providers

  John O'Brien sets out the basic skills service providers need in order to successfully support people who are at risk of social exclusion or devaluation.

  Visit page | 25/01/11

• Five Basic Tasks

  The core competencies of any agency aiming to support people who are at risk social exclusion and devaluation

  Visit page | 25/01/11

• Five Tasks of Good Support

  Good support means helping people connect and be part of their community.

  Visit page | 25/01/11

• Evaluation of SDS Pilot in Stockport

  The University of Chester's evaluation of self-directed support for people with mental health problems in Stockport.

  Visit page | 24/01/11

• Recovery Stories

  Stories of mental health recovery and self-directed support from Hertfordshire

  Visit page | 24/01/11

• New Script for Social Work

  Presentation to social workers in North East Lincolnshire on how to return the social work role to one that is more about enabling and empowering

  Visit page | 24/01/11

• Housebound Forums

  One family have turned their experience of agoraphobia into a dynamic and exciting system of online support.

  Visit page | 20/01/11

• Personalisation & Integration

  Presentation given at the Eastern Region's mental health conference on personalisation and the prospects for radical integration of health and social care funding.

  Visit page | 13/01/11

• Adam and his Family are in Control

  Adam has returned from an out of area placement to take up life as an active citizen.

  Visit page | 11/01/11

• Keith Achieves Citizenship

  Keith has been able to move away from institutional living and achieve real citizenship under his own control.

  Visit page | 11/01/11

• Don't Monkey with People's Lives

  Carl Poll gets to the heart of why the relationship between professionals and citizens can often go so wrong - and what we can do about it.

  Visit page | 10/01/11

• Citizenship in a Decent Society

  Simon Duffy sets out the challenge that treating each other as citizenship sets to a society that aims to be decent

  Visit page | 06/01/11

• Connection not Inclusion

  Carl Poll explains the subtle but important difference between connecting and including

  Visit page | 06/01/11

• Active Patient

  Vidhya Alakeson's Policy Paper sets out the case for extending the principles of self-direction, and in particular the use of individual budgets, to many areas of health care.

  Visit page | 04/01/11

• The Rise of the Meritocracy

  Michael Young's classic attack on the arrogance and thoughtlessness of our meritocracy and failure to understand the breadth and diversity of human values.

  Visit page | 04/01/11

• Much More to Life than Services

  Bob Rhodes offers a vision for personalisation in social care that goes beyond the use of social care services and returns us to community and citizenship.

  Visit page | 04/01/11

• Turning the World Upside Down

  Nigel Crisp describes why western, developed countries have much to learn from developing countries who have had to create health care systems with lower levels of funding and…

  Visit page | 04/01/11

• Radical Hope: Education and Equality in Australia

  Noel Pearson describes how educational reform has failed for aboriginal people and makes the case for welfare reform based upon igniting self-interest.

  Visit page | 04/01/11

• Development from Within

  Varun Vidyarthi and Patricia Wilson explore the power of group reflection for achieving sustainable change in all forms of human development

  Visit page | 01/01/11

• Shift to Citizenship Model

  This image shows the fundamental shift in thinking required to reform public services within the welfare state - from a professional gift to citizenship model

  Visit page | 01/01/11

• A Fair Start

  Pippa Murray makes the case for an integrated Personalised Pathway to enable disabled children and their families to take control of health, education and care funding.

  Visit page | 20/12/10

• Manifesto of the Personalisation Forum Group

  This manifesto sets out the values, goals and intentions of the Personalisation Forum Group - a group of people who live in Doncaster and who suffer from poor mental health.

  Visit page | 01/12/10

• Online Medical Records

  In order that citizens can take more responsibility for the management of their own health it is vital that there are systems of shared record keeping that enable people to record…

  Visit page | 25/11/10

• 'The CHF in 223?' - That's My Mother

  Terry Lynch describes how damaging it can be when professionals see only the label, not the person. For an older person this can be a matter of life and death.

  Visit page | 16/11/10

• Total Place Commissioning

  Total Place Commissioning means focusing on the real assets of community in order to shape innovative and appropriate solutions to meet real community needs.

  Visit page | 12/11/10

• New Script for Care Managers

  Simon Duffy sets out the practical steps social workers need to take in order to organise and support the development of a more empowering model of personalisation.

  Visit page | 10/11/10

• Conditions to Work

  The debate about conditionality in work and the benefits system is confusing and this does not help us build systems that encourage work and contribution.

  Visit page | 08/11/10

• Integration through Personalisation

  Only a model which examines the value and role of integration from the perspective of the citizen will begin to bring some much needed clarity into the current system.

  Visit page | 07/11/10

• Individual Service Design

  This paper which describes the process by which we can design personalised support for ourselves or those we care about.

  Visit page | 06/11/10

• Avoid the Quantum Leap

  Terry Lynch explores how to avoid those desperate placements in residential care, unnecessary hospitalisation or institutionalisation. Older people often need modest…

  Visit page | 03/11/10

• Citizenship & Professional Gift Models

  The Citizenship Model is a new paradigm for public services where support is treated as an entitlement which can be shaped and driven by the citizen instead of as a professionally

  Visit page | 01/11/10

• Are Individual Budgets Really Mine?

  Simon Duffy argues that individual budgets are provided as additional income, which is provided to people in order that they can meet their needs.

  Visit page | 01/11/10

• Critical Path Framework

  Don Derrett sets out the Critical Path Framework that has been developed to help local authorities plan all the necessary system changes as they move towards creating support…

  Visit page | 30/10/10

• Resource Allocation in Mental Health

  Simon Duffy explores the possibility of integrating resource allocation systems for health and social care for mental health.

  Visit page | 28/10/10

• But I Don't Want Eldercare!

  Terry Lynch's ground-breaking book explains how you can help your parents to stay as strong as they can, as long as they can.

  Visit page | 15/10/10

• Safety for Citizens

  Simon Duffy explores the relationship between safeguarding and personalisation and the risks that come from institutionalisation.

  Visit page | 10/10/10

• Community-Based Support

  The best support assumes and supports capacity and only provides more professionalised expertise where necessary.

  Visit page | 01/10/10

• Conditional Resource Entitlement

  An Individual Budget is an entitlement that is subject to some controls or conditionality.

  Visit page | 25/09/10

• Architecture for Personalisation Toolkit

  Architecture for Personalisation Toolkit has been published to help local leaders develop their own strategy for producing local systems that enable personalisation. The…

  Visit page | 20/09/10

• Architecture for Personalisation

  Architecture for Personalisation is a report describing progress in Yorkshire & Humber towards developing a community-based approach to supporting personalisation and…

  Visit page | 20/09/10

• Seven Steps of Self-Directed Support

  Self-directed support is the 7 step process by which people obtain control over their support in order to achieve a better life for themselves.

  Visit page | 17/09/10

• Co-Production

  Co-production means citizens and professionals working together to produce the best outcomes.

  Visit page | 15/09/10

• Real Wealth

  Real Wealth is what it takes to build a good life. This is not just money - it is much broader.

  Visit page | 10/09/10

• Decision-Making in Health

  When our life is threatened and real expertise offers us some possibility of extending or improving our life then it makes sense to share control with appropriate professionals.

  Visit page | 01/09/10

• Individual Budget

  An Individual Budget is a system for individualized funding where the person is told, up-front, how much they are entitled to

  Visit page | 01/08/10

• Efficiency for Citizenship

  Greater efficiency comes from putting the right money in the hands of citizens directly.

  Visit page | 01/08/10

• Individual Service Design

  Individual service design is the creative development of high quality supports to achieve full and active citizenship.

  Visit page | 15/07/10

• Individual Service Fund

  An Individual Service Fund is a mechanism for controlling an individual budget using an organisation.

  Visit page | 10/07/10

• Personalised Support

  A report describing how to provide support to people with the most complex needs or challenging behaviour drawing on the work of Partners for Inclusion.

  Visit page | 04/07/10

• Five Gear Model of Care Management

  A more realistic account of real care management functions and how these activities can be made more person-centred.

  Visit page | 01/07/10

• Keys to Citizenship

  Citizenship is a practical and achievable goal for all of us - the keys to citizenship explains how.

  Visit page | 15/06/10

• Helping Providers to Change

  This is a book by Self Direct that focuses on the work necessary to help service providers change and to develop more personalised forms of support.

  Visit page | 14/06/10

• Personalisation in Health & Social Care

  Slides exploring the genesis of personalisation and its subsequent meaning for professionals in health and social care services.

  Visit page | 10/06/10

• Individual Service Design

  Slides exploring how to create individual service designs.

  Visit page | 05/06/10

• Model Development

  Model Development is one of the keys to innovation and improvement in the welfare state is the development of models which can be tested and improved.

  Visit page | 01/06/10

• Personalisation in Mental Health

  Personalisation in Mental Health is a report setting out a model for integrating health and social care for people with mental health services - designed to promote…

  Visit page | 06/05/10

• Constitutional Social Justice

  An essay on the possibilities of radical reform within the welfare state.

  Visit page | 03/05/10

• Personal Planning

  It is sometimes useful to have a plan and sometimes local bodies may seek to confirm the competence of people with Individual Budgets by reviewing plans.

  Visit page | 01/05/10

• Tax-Benefit Reform

  An essay that explains how the logic of self-directed support and the development of resource allocation systems could provide the basis for reform for the whole welfare state.

  Visit page | 26/04/10

• Citizenship & Community

  This paper outlines the relationship between active citizenship and community development and its relationship to the idea of Total Place.

  Visit page | 09/04/10

• Citizenship Theory

  A paper which explores the theoretical foundations of personalisation.

  Visit page | 09/04/10

• Future of Personalisation

  A paper which was developed to explore the different policy implications of personalisation.

  Visit page | 09/04/10

• Personalisation Model

  The Personalisation Model provides a framework for reorganising public services so that the citizen remains in control of their own life and any support that they need.

  Visit page | 01/04/10

• Personalised Transition

  The Centre for Welfare Reform, in association with ibk initiatives, has published an evaluation of a new and radical policy innovation in Sheffield which gives young people with…

  Visit page | 08/03/10

• Personalised Pathway

  This model enables families with disabled children to take effective control over their support, while getting coordinated expert support.

  Visit page | 01/03/10

• Personalised Support

  Personalised Support is a system for providing support to people with complex and challenging needs to live their own life, on their own terms, but as active citizens.

  Visit page | 25/02/10

• Personalised Transition

  Personalised Transition is a system for enabling young people with complex needs to leave school and to achieve active citizenship within their communities.

  Visit page | 15/02/10

• Total Place Commissioning

  Total Place Commissioning means focusing on the real assets of community in order to shape innovative and appropriate solutions to meet real community needs.

  Visit page | 31/01/10

• Should We Ban Brokerage?

  Should we ban brokerage? is a Discussion Paper which argues that the intellectual case for Independent Professional Brokerage is much weaker than it at first appears. The…

  Visit page | 06/11/09

• Keep the Flame Burning

  A brilliant summary of the important insights of Terry Lynch into ageing.

  Visit page | 05/11/09

• Personalisation and the Social Care revolution

  This discussion paper provides an overview of personalisation in social care.

  Visit page | 20/10/09

• Being the Boss is Best

  An article which describes the benefits of being your own boss.

  Visit page | 15/10/09

• A Healthy Choice? Direct Payments in the NHS

  This article sets out the case for extending Direct Payments or other forms of self-directed support to the health care system.

  Visit page | 15/10/09

• Keys to Citizenship

  A guide to getting good support for people with learning disabilities.

  Visit page | 05/08/09

• Citizenship Model

  This model describes how the citizen should be central to the design and delivery of public services. The citizen is part of a real community, is entitled to an appropriate level of…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Co-Production

  Coproduction is the name for the process by which improved outcomes are produced by the collaboration of different people, with different perspectives. Most often it refers to…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Conditional Resource Entitlement

  This is a way of understanding individual budgets, vouchers and other mechanism as part of a way of providing support while protecting personal autonomy.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Community Capacity

  This model enables us to maps four dimensions of community capacity. These community capacities support the achievement of valued outcomes.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Community-based Support

  It is a mistake to think one agency, person or professional should be the monopoly provider of support to disabled people; instead a Community-Based Support system opens up all…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Professional Gift Model

  The Professional Gift Model remains the prevalent model for public services, whereby support is defined by professionals and given as a unilateral gift to needy people.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Resource Allocation System (RAS)

  A Resource Allocation System (RAS) is any set of rules that allows fair allocations to be made to people who need extra support.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Functional Model of Brokerage

  The term brokerage has come to refer to all the different tasks that might be helpful to help someone be in control and effectively use self-directed support. However it is quite…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Funding Models in Health

  There are many different systems by which funding can be organised in order to fund different kinds of health and social care provision:

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Individual Budget

  An individual budget is one approach to enabling people to take more control of their own support - by giving people knowledge of what they are entitled to before they get to spend…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Individual Service Design

  Individual Service Design is the process by which we transform our Real Wealth into effective Citizenship. It requires (a) positive imagination (b) the ability to look outward…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Individual Service Fund

  An Individual Service Fund is a useful way in which resources can be used flexibly to achieve personalised support.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Integrated Tax Benefit

  The current tax and benefit system is confused and confusing. It needs to be integrated, both in order to reduce stigma and to eliminate unnecessary poverty traps.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Keys to Citizenship

  The Keys to Citizenship was a model developed to explain the practical steps that are necessary to achieve meaningful, everyday citizenship.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Model Development

  Any model for improving systems can be improved if it is subject to a four stage iterative process.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Integration through Personalisation

  In public policy integration has often meant the brining together of services of funding that has been separated at the national level at some local level. Integration through…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Personalisation System Model

  Personalisation can be developed as system-wide innovation. However it requires changes at every point: lead professional, finance and contracting and commissioning.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Personalised Pathway

  The Personalised Pathway is a model for services and support for children and families - it puts families in the driving seat from the very beginning.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Personalised Support

  Personalised Support is a system for designing and organising around the needs of the individual. It requires both important systemic structures and the development of a…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Personalised Transition

  Personalised Transition is the process for enabling families and young people to take control of their support and lives in adult life. Schools act as a source of support,…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Portable Education Budget

  There seems to be no good reason why families should not control the funding for their child's education - especially if their child has extra or more complex needs. This would…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Poverty Net

  The Poverty Net is the interlocking mesh of taxes and benefits that enmesh people in poverty - damaging our incentives to earn, save, contribute and grow.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Pull Economics

  Instead of pushing resources that we think are useful towards them Push Economics proposes that people are enabled to pull resources towards themselves and enabled to combine…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Resource Allocation System

  A Resource Allocation System (RAS) is any set of public rules which determines an entitlement. A RAS is essential in determining individual budgets because it allows planning to…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Smart Commissioning

  Commissioning does not need to just focus on the organisation of services for communities - smart commissioning treats citizens and communities themselves as a locus for…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Personal Plan

  Plans should be personal - and they should integrate care, support, education or whatever else people need to plan for. There a number of elements to a good plan which are worth…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• System Complexity

  The welfare systems that support disabled people, children and families and others who need help have grown in complexity and obscurity.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Tapered Control

  Individual budgets can be managed by at least 6 different mechanisms, allowing people to take different levels of control.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Total Transformation

  The process of shifting local systems over to a more personalised approach is complex and multi-layered and is sometimes called Total Transformation.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Inefficiency of Welfare System

  The current welfare system wastes resources by reducing the ability of the citizen to put them to good use.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• WomenCentre Model

  The WomenCentre offers an empowering, sophisticated and innovative model for meeting the needs of vulnerable women.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Decision-Making in Health

  The focus for decision-making in healthcare needs to change depending upon the circumstances and the level of clinical evidence available.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Efficiency of Citizenship Model

  The efficiency of the citizenship model is determined by the fact that it gets the right level of resources to the right person to make decisions and it understands that value is…

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Five Gear Model of Care Management

  Care management is a process that can be delivered in a much more person-centred way, and it has at least 5 key elements or gears.

  Visit page | 01/08/09

• Self-Directed Support

  Self-directed support is the 7 step process by which people obtain control over their support in order to achieve a better life for themselves.

  Visit page | 01/07/09

• Smart Commissioning

  In the past commissioners were told by central government that their job was to purchase services on behalf of citizens; this model turns that idea around.

  Visit page | 01/06/09

• Tapered Control

  People need Tapered Control, different levels of control, depending upon their needs and circumstances.

  Visit page | 01/05/09

• Total Transformation

  The process of transformation is complex and multi-layered, however it is possible to identify an underlying logic and phasing.

  Visit page | 01/04/09

• Personalisation in Social Care

  This article explores how the current reforms in social care are rooted in a radically different approach to social justice and welfare to those that preceded them.

  Visit page | 04/11/08

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