Publications by A-Z
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Whole System Change: the meaning of personalisation
This presentation was given at the national conference organised by North Lanarkshire Council on Self-Directed Support.
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Whole System Reform
Presentation on welfare reform and employment support for disabled people.
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Whose Community Is It Anyway?
Written by Simon Duffy this paper suggests it's time to re-think commissioning and work with communities in a real partnership of equals.
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Whose risk is it anyway?
Jon Glasby explores the concept of risk and its relationship to personalisation in social care.
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Why are they closing our home?
John Burton describes how changes in the regulatory regime are forcing the closure of genuinely human homes where people live together as friends.
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Why Group Homes Are No Longer Optimal
Michael Kendrick explains why group homes should no longer be considered the optimal support solution for people with disabilities.
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Why I Couldn't Care Less
Alison Chalmers writes with candour about the struggles of caring.
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Why I Keep Banging on About Citizenship
Simon Duffy summarises the conclusion of his philosophical essay Citizenship and the Welfare State and what it means in practice.
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Why I Was Worried by the Assisted Dying Bill
Wendy Perez explains why she was worried by the Assisted Dying Bill and the problems people face in the hospital system.
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Why I Wrote Second Class Citizens
Stef Benstead found that many people, like Christian Conservatives, care about poverty but have false beliefs about why it exists, this inspired her to write Second Class Citizens.
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Why Inequality Matters
Written by members of My Fair London this paper presents further essential information about income inequality and its consequences in a brief and accessible format.
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Why Northamptonshire Went Bust
Simon Duffy explains why Northamptonshire went bust and what kind of thinking is required to return local government to its proper role.
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Why The Third Way Failed
Bill Jordan's book describes the development and failure of the 'Third Way' and it latest iteration 'Big Society.'
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Why the UK Needs a Written Constitution
Gavin Barker addresses the issues of democratic accountability and the protections that need building into our welfare system against undue corporate influence.
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Why We Need a Yorkshire Parliament
Simon Duffy gave this talk at the launch of the Campaign for a Yorkshire Parliament, in York on 27th July 2019.
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WiltsCIL Evaluation of Direct Payment Workshops
This report describes the experience of Wiltshire Centre for Independent Living in using peer support to help people who are new to direct payments.
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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'.
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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.
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Women Centred Solutions
Women Centred Working has been established to share information on women centred approaches for women with complex needs.
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WomenCentre Model
The WomenCentre offers an empowering, sophisticated and innovative model for meeting the needs of vulnerable women.
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WomenCentre Model
WomenCentre has worked out how to integrate personalisation and collective action in a sophisticated and dynamic model of support.
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WomenCentre Slides
WomenCentre is one the most effective and innovative organisations in the UK - combining personalisation with community action.
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Words Matter
Stephen Craig Coulson reflects on the words that are used in human services and why it matters to use words thoughtfully.
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Work Capability Assessment: deaths and suicides
This report from the Spartacus Network draws together accounts of death and suicide associated with the WCA.
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Workers' Rights Versus the Right to Care
Alain Catzeflis describes how UK social policy has created a severe, but unnecessary conflict between the rights of workers and disabled people.
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Working for Lives of Common Dignity
Rhonda Galbally, a leading disability activist in Australia, explains how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was achieved and describes the challenges ahead.
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Working on the Inside
Kate Fulton offers insight into the inner dimension of change that is essential to working respectfully and with compassion.
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Working with 'Vulnerability'
A summary of a talk given by Dr Simon Duffy at the meeting of Churches Together in South Yorkshire, Spring Forum in April 2013.
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Yes We Can
It's important to work together on a global and local level so that we can find ‘win, win’ strategies and strengthen our capacity for radical change.
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You're Welcome
You're Welcome is a new project funded by Barnwood Trust to promote innovation in community.
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Your Life Is Important Too
Terry Lynch shares his personal insight on why it's important for carers to take care of themselves.
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Zigmond on CQC and Regulation
David Zigmond is interviewed by Simon Duffy about the conflict he had with CQC and the negative impact of the wrong kind of regulation on healthcare.
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Zigmond on His Books
David Zigmond provides an overview of some his main writings on the NHS and the nature of good pastoral healthcare.
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Zigmond on Mental Health
David Zigmond talks to Simon Duffy about the importance in true and empathetic understanding in nurturing good mental health and what this means for the NHS.
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Zigmond on Neoliberalism and the NHS
David Zigmond explains to Simon Duffy what has gone wrong in the NHS as neoliberalism has exploited technological change to undermine the humanity of the NHS.
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Zigmond on Renationalising the NHS
David Zigmond explains to Simon Duffy why renationalising the NHS must be the first step to going back to a more human, local and collegial NHS.
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Zigmond on the Future of the NHS
David Zigmond tells Simon Duffy that a better NHS will be more local, more human and that it involves restoring some of the older practices we've abandoned.
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Zigmond on the Human Scale
David Zigmond talks to Simon Duffy about the importance of scale on the NHS if we want to nurture human understanding and a more caring approach.
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[R]evolution Road
Veena Vasista explores the connections between individual internal change and the journey of creating political, economic and social systems that are liberating.