Publications by A-Z
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'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.
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12 Lecciones de América Latina
Stephanía Duarte Mora y David Towell exploran cómo las asociaciones familiares nacionales están promoviendo el cambio educativo en América Latina: Bolivia, Colombia y Perú.
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12 Lessons from Latin America
Stephanía Duarte Mora and David Towell explore how national family associations are promoting educational change in Latin America: Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.
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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.
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21st Century Beveridge
In this journal article from Policy & Politics Jon Glasby, Simon Duffy and Catherine Needham make the case for a radical review of the welfare state.
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21st Century Vision
A paper following the launch of the Housing and Support Alliance offering a new vision for the future.
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247 Grid Tool
The 247 grid tool is a simple and visual way to design an effective support package around someone’s life.
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4 Essential Elements of ABCD Process
John McKnight and Cormac Russell describe what is distinctive about an asset-based development process in this concise handbook.
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5 Self-Directed Support Stories in Finnish
Five stories from Finland of how self-directed support works in practice.
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5 Tips for Living Well with Dementia
Chris Moon-Willems shares five important and practical ways in which you can help someone live well with dementia.
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8 Rules - Keep the Flame Burning
Terry Lynch's film tells us the key things to remember as we grow older about how to stay independent and in control.
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A Brief History of Inclusion
A presentation to organisations seeking to advance the rights of people with learning disabilities in Finland, giving a brief overview of progress and set backs in England.
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A Career in Adult Social Care
Virginia Moffatt reviews her 30 year career in adult social care in England and the journey from institutional services, to community care and the impact of austerity.
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A Citizen with Learning Difficulties
Wendy Perez writes about what it means to be a citizen with learning difficulties.
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A Commissioners' Guide to Individual Service Funds
This guide offers a commissioner's perspective on how to implement Individual Service Funds and widen self-directed support beyond Direct Payments.
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A Constitution for Disability Rights
Claudia Gilberg, Geoff Jones and Gavin Barker explain why disability rights activists have every reason to support the campaign for constitutional reform.
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A Fair and Just Future for Cornwall
The Cornwall Independent Poverty Forum has produced a report outlining its vision for achieving social justice in Cornwall.
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A Fair Budget
A discussion paper exploring the role of the RAS (Resource Allocation System) in the development of self-directed support.
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A Fair Income
Simon Duffy explains how the tax-benefit system can be reformed to promote citizenship and families.
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A Fair Society - Tizard Annual Lecture
Simon Duffy gave the Annual Tizard Lecture on the 4th March at the University of Kent.
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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 people and policy solutions for the future.
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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.
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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.
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A Fair Society in Northern Ireland
A presentation given at the first meeting of the Campaign for a Fair Society in Northern Ireland in June 2012.
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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.
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A Fair Society?
Produced for the Campaign for a Fair Society, this report shows how government cuts in the UK target disabled people.
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A Fair Society?
This short 3 minute film explains how the UK Government's current programme of cuts ends up targeting disabled people.
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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.
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A Fair Start - reforming services for disabled children
Dr Pippa Murray founder of ibk initiatives and inventor of the Personalised Pathway on A Fair Start.
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A Finnish Perspective
Katja Valkama reflects from a Finnish perspective on social innovations in the UK and the price of welfare 'reform'.
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A Future Without the ILF
In this discussion paper Jim Elder-Woodward reviews the achievements of the ILF and makes the case for a new Trust which builds on its achievements.
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A Grounded Theory Study of Disability Benefit Changes
Jessica Saffer carried out doctoral research into the psychological impact of Government changes to the disability benefit system - welfare reform.
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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.
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A Healthy Heart for the NHS
David Zigmond argues that it is not just economics that is at the heart of the problems in the NHS - more than this is the lack of attention to the issues of the heart.
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A Holiday with a Difference
Amanda Topps describes a shared holiday where everyone is equal and where everyone takes care of each other on their own terms.
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A Life That Works
Norma Curran describes how community calendars can be used to help people get more full and interesting lives.
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A Manifesto for Planet and Progeny
The world is haunted by the spectre of an 'economic man' and his form of capitalism, seen as the be all and end all of human existence, Henry Mintzberg explains more.
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A Modern Hospital
Jan Walmsley and a group of disabled researchers look back at life in Princess Marina Hospital, Northamptonshire in the years before its closure.
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A New Deal for Sheffield Old Folk
This 1951 paper shows how social policy has and has not changed since World War II and suggests that we have made less progress than we might have hoped.
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A New Reablement Journey
This document describes a very different way of maximising independence, seeing it as something that should underpin everything we do.
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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.
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A New Way Home
Frances Brown and John Dalrymple provide practical guidance on a personalised approach to leaving institutions.
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A Parent in Camouflage
Hanne-Maria Lappäranta describes what it's like to be a parent of someone with a disability who also works in social services.
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A Personalised Approach to Safeguards in the NDIS
Marita Walker, Kate Fulton and Bruce Bonyhady offer an approach to safeguarding and quality that starts from the assumption of people's citizenship.
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A Qualitative Study of the Impact of the UK Bedroom Tax
This report examines the impact of the bedroom tax on health and wellbeing in a North East England community in which 68.5% of residents live in social housing.
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A Response to All Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter. We all need to accept that institutional and systemic racism is still prevalent in our society today.
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A Response to Robin Jackson
Leading learning disability academic Jan Walmsley responds to Robin Jackson's critical report on the failure of learning disability social policy: 'Who Cares?'.
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A Review of Social Role Valorisation (SRV)
Nan Carle explores the blessings and problems created by normalisation and Social Role Valorisation as a framework for values in disability support.
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A Rural Parish Initiative
Bob Rhodes describes how his parish, Ruspidge & Soudley Parish Council, is exploring the use of a community worker to better understand the true needs of its community.
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A Short History of Self Direct
Don Derrett tells the story of self direct - how it developed, what it achieved and why finally, it closed.
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A Social Movement for Basic Income
Bill Jordan describes how the idea of basic income inspired a pre-War social movement and wonders whether the same might emerge today.
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A Strategy for Welfare Reform
This essay provides an overview of why the welfare state should be reformed - not cut - and what it might take to achieve this difficult task.
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A Student Nurse and the DWP
Rebecca Allen explains what happens when a student nurse falls ill and needs assistance from the benefit system in the UK.
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A Troubling Truth
Dr Claudia Gillberg reflects on her own experience of living with the chronic illness, myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME, describing the multiple challenges she and others face.
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A Two-Tier Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis and subsequent coronavirus legislation demonstrates that Government does not value disabled or older people as equals.
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A Youth Perspective on Invisible Disabilities
This report pulls together multiple resources to present a snapshot of Invisible Disabilities in New Zealand.
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Abbot's Mill Project
Jo Kidd describes the Abbot's Mill Project, an initiative that combines a commitment to sustainability and social justice.
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Abolishing the NHS Market
In this powerful essay David Zigmond eviscerates the Internal Market which is choking the NHS to death.
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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.
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Abusing the Blue Badge Scheme
Wendy Perez is frustrated that so many people abuse the Blue Badge scheme and make life more difficult for disabled people.
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Academia is in a Critical Condition
Thomas Allan explores the emerging conversation about the social responsibilities of an academia that is increasingly consumed by narrow market dogma.
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Access to Banking for People with a Learning Disability
A report from Dosh on how people with a learning disability get access to banking and the problems they can encounter.
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Access to Work - Eventually
Nadia Clarke describes her success at finding work as a young disabled and deaf woman, and the challenge of getting Access to Work support.
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Accessible Banking
Meike Beckford sets out how Dosh are using their experience to improve access to banking and thereby make a real difference in people’s lives.
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Accountancy is not Economics
Steve Griffiths examines the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) critique of of Labour's 2019 Manifesto and discovers some major problems.
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Actions That Build Community
John O'Brien's paper explores 75 different actions from a list prepared by a group of academic researchers and civic leaders who want to support the creation of social capital.
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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.
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Active Patient
Vidhya Alakeson of the Resolution Foundation describes how personalisation and the use of individual budgets in healthcare could promote better health and well-being.
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Adam and his Family are in Control
Adam has returned from an out of area placement to take up life as an active citizen.
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Advancing Inclusive Education
Gordon Porter and David Towell offer a framework for transforming public education systems so as to provide inclusive education for all.
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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.
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Advancing Inclusive Schooling in Latin America
Further reflections from Stepanía Duarte Mora and David Towell on advancing the journey to inclusive and quality schooling in Latin America.
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Adventurous Social Work?
Tim Keilty describes how self-directed support can be successfully applied to help families stay safe and create solutions to avoid their children going into care.
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Agency Workers and Zero Hours Contracts
This publication by the Derbyshire Unemployed Workers' Centre describes the way in which agency work and the use of zero-hours contracts is creating a punitive work culture.
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AiM - Artists in Mind
AiM is an arts charity supporting people who experience acute and enduring mental health problems.
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AIREA - Beyond Planning
AIREA is an inclusive retreat which brings together people to find energy and direction fro personal and collective change.
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All Change for Social Care in England?
Chris Moon-Willems, an independent specialist in care for older people, assesses the Government's plans to reform social care.
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All In This Together
This film by Dole Animators captures some of the real experiences people are facing today in the light of recent changes to the welfare system in the UK.
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ALLFIE Manifesto for Inclusive Education
The Alliance for Inclusive Education's (ALLFIE) manifesto demands Government moves to a fully inclusive education system to support human rights.
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Alternatives to ATUs
Steven Rose explains why there are alternatives to ATUs and the private hospitals where too many people with disabilities remain incarcerated.
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Always look on the bright side
Lynne Friedli looks at the rise of assets based approaches in Scotland and asks whether we may be overlooking the real sources of poverty and inequality.
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An Apology
Simon Duffy apologises for two social innovations that have had negative consequences - the complex RAS and the Support Plan.
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An Emancipatory Welfare State
A draft consultation paper setting out the arguments for a basic income for people with disabilities.
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An Introduction to Basic Income Plus
Caroline Richardson and Simon Duffy outline a practical approach for making sure basic income works for disabled people and others who face extra costs.
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And This Time It's Personal
WellRedFilms explores the underpinnings of the psycho-coercive practices endorsed by the government with leading researchers and the Mental Health Resistance Network.
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Andrew's Passion for Cars
Andrew has a learning disability and a passion for cars. This short film gives an idea of how following this passion helps him find friends and build a life in the community.
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Antifragile
Simon Duffy reviews Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Antifragile - things that gain from disorder.
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Architecture for Personalisation
A report describing progress in Yorkshire & Humber towards developing a community-based approach to supporting personalisation and self-directed support.
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Architecture for Personalisation Toolkit
This toolkit will help local leaders develop their own strategy for producing local systems that enable personalisation. It contains helpful hints, ideas and a framework for developing plans.
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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.
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Are Institutions Still With Us?
Sam Sly explores the problems that leave too many people with complex needs in long-term institutional care.
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Are There No Limits for Markets?
Civitas Vera provide an insightful critique into the limitations of the market in policy and real life.
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Asking Better Questions
Lindsay Tighe believes that if we make some simple changes to the way we communicate with each other, we enable human potential and capability to be released.
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Assessing Need Under Austerity
Virginia Moffatt compares previous efforts to assess the need for social care with the current systems emerging as local authorities go deeper into austerity-driven crisis.
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Assessing the Assessors
Independent research by disabled people on the assessment process which many are forced to undergo - the Work Capability Assessment.
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Assessment and Setting Standards
Nan Carle presented this paper in 1983 but today, as thousands continue to live in abusive institutional settings this decades old paper is as relevant ever.
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Assessment and Treatment Units
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.
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Assistance with Integrity
John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien share their discussion paper first published in 1994, challenging the dominant way of thinking about quality and safety in human services.
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Assisted Dying
Michael Balkow argues that compassion and respect for the autonomy of those with terminal illnesses requires change in the law to enable assisted suicide.
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Assuming Capacity
Sam Sly underlines the importance of assuming capacity to ensure people with learning disabilities get the best possible lives.