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The Upstream Response to COVID-19
Dr Simon Duffy sets out some key principles to guide local communities as they develop their response to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Self-Directed Support Graphics in Italian
Infographics on self-directed support translated into Italian developed for the SDS Network.
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Self-Directed Support Graphics in Finnish
Infographics on self-directed support translated into Finnish developed for the SDS Network.
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Self-Directed Support Graphics
Infographics on self-directed support developed for the SDS Network.
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The DWP Fails People with a Learning Disability
Neil Carpenter describes the barriers to justice and economic security created by the DWP's systems.
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Talk Shop - Citizens Assemble
Citizens Assemblies are all the rage, but the Talk Shop model offers a low cost and grassroots approach which can galvanise local citizen action.
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The Hub at Yeovil
The Hub at Yeovil is an example of a community bringing young disabled people together to build lives of citizenship and useful employment.
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Buurtzorg and Self-Management
Buurtzorg is a powerful social innovation, started in the Netherlands, which enables self-management and continuity of care.
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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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Self-Direction Worldwide
Lynn Breedlove observes the competing conceptions of self-directed support emerging around the world.
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Local Area Coordination Graphics
Infographics on Local Area Coordination created by Ralph Broad, Simon Duffy and Eddie Bartnik.
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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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Learning from Penzance Citizens Panel
Gavin Barker shares lessons learnt from the recent Penzance Citizens Panel on Housing, Homelessness and Low Pay.
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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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Keys to Citizenship in Czech
Infographics on the keys to citizenship translated into Czech by Quip.
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UK Food Banks in 2019
Lizzie Peck provides an overview of the emergence and rapid growth of food banks since the Coalition Government and the combination of austerity and welfare reform.
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Undercooked Analysis
Steve Griffiths argues that the Institute for Fiscal Studies has failed to be objective in its analysis of Labour's 2019 Manifesto.
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Social Work Writing and Bureaucracy
Why has writing reports, plans, case notes and assessments come to dominate everyday social work, often at the price of real social work practice?
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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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Avanzando en la ruta hacia una educación inclusiva en Latinoamérica
Reflexiones de un viaje a través de Bolivia, Perú y Colombia en octubre 2019.
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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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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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Dissent from Consensus
Bureaucracies and regulatory control systems undermine important social innovations such as person-centred planning.
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NHS Reform: Money Can't Buy Love
David Zigmond argues that more money alone won't restore the NHS to the values of its birth. The NHS needs more trust, freedom and cooperation.
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Influences and Consequences
In the conclusion to the Preventable Harm Project Mo Stewart shows how US companies and right-wing ideology have savaged the lives of disabled people.
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Private Firms Can Serve the Public
Gary Wootton explains how the state can overcome the limitations of markets by creating procurement systems that promote equality.
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The Journey to Inclusive Schooling
This new guide shares eight case studies from schools already well-advanced in the journey to inclusivity now focusing on changing themselves from within.
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The Reform of Social Care Regulation
John Burton explains why the regulation of social care must change its culture and why we need something more human and more local.
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Basic Income and Equal Citizenship
Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform and UBI Lab Sheffield gave this talk on basic income and the idea of equal citizenship for the Citizen's Basic Income Network Scotland.
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Narrative Approaches and Inclusion
Colin Newton provides an overview of the emerging use of narrative approaches in psychology and their relationship to person-centred planning.
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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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Self-Directed Support (SDS) in New Zealand
Marsha explains how New Zealands' approach to self-directed support has developed from initial exceptional arrangements into what is now a central plank of Government policy.
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Self-Directed Support (SDS) in the USA
John O'Brien and Robin Cooper share how SDS has evolved in the USA and the lessons therein for other countries.
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Grow a Better Future
In this paper Steve Newman demonstrates that it is entirely possible to reimagine housing, planning and development so we could live and thrive in harmony with nature.
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The Partner State
Reimagining care with the Commons and peer to peer (P2P) alternatives.
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Fixing Social Care
This presentation was hosted by the Yorkshire branch of the Socialist Health Association at an event to explore radical and progressive ideas to reform the broken social care system.
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Individual Service Funds (ISFs) in Context
An overview of the development of Individual Service Funds (ISFs) - what they are and how they are developing
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How Are the Children?
Are we achieving the goals set out in 1989 by the UN in The Convention on the Rights of the Child?
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Canaries in the Coal Mine
Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service (NCVS) share their 2019 report on the state of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Gateshead and Newcastle.
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Essentials of Basic Income
Annie Miller's short book provides an ideal definition of basic income and provides a framework for campaigners to clarify what it means and what flexibility it allows.
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La Ruta Hacia La Escuela Inclusiva
David Towell y Gordon Porter explican 3 estudios de caso de diferentes continentes con la finalidad de explorar cómo las escuelas lideran el proceso de transformación de la escuela.
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Social Value Policy and Framework
This policy sets out the legal context for social value and an approach a council could adopt to deliver social value through commissioning and procurement activities.
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Making the Private Sector Serve the Public Good
Gary Wootton argues that we can do so much more to improve society by ensuring that the private sector works to serve the greater good.
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Creating Blue Space
David Towell reviews Hans Meissner's illuminating account of the journey from institutional services for people with learning disabilities to individualised housing and support.
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Fully Funded Social Care
Simon Duffy and Gordon Peters explain how we might fully fund social care and why this is vital next step in achieving human rights in England.
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The Rights of Nature
Gavin Barker argues that a new constitution for the UK should not just protect human rights, it should also protect the rights of nature.
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The Perils of Industrialised Healthcare
David Zigmond argues that we underestimate the perils of industrialised healthcare and that the NHS needs to be built on a human scale.
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End Parliamentary Sovereignty
Gavin Barker sets out the case for limiting the sovereignty of Parliament.
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Creating a Veganic Farm
Jo Kidd describes the beginning of her family's journey into veganic farming in Kent.
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Creating Space for Citizens in Social Care
Peter Limbrick's model of Caring Activism does not assume that everybody will want to or should take on a caring role. But what if just some of us did.
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Universal Engagement and Civic Engagement
Anna Grant argues that Basic Income could be an important policy for increasing democratic and civic engagement by citizens.
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Bill of Rights Including Social Rights
Gavin Barker explains why human rights need the full protection of the constitution and why social rights and the right to access the law must be included.
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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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Crippled by Austerity
Simon Duffy reviews Frances Ryan's important book which describes the devastating impact of the UK Government's attack on disabled people since 2010.
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Know Your Place
Joyce Bullivant documents an issue that is vital to justice and to our wellbeing - the survival of our local heritage, our buildings, our green spaces and the social structures that maintain them.
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Being a Think Tank in the North
Written for Now Then Magazine, Simon Duffy reflects on the Centre's ten years in Sheffield.
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Lobbying for Self-Directed Support
Simon Duffy describes some of the strategies that can be used to shift systems towards the use of self-directed support.
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Reinventing Social Services
Bob Rhodes argues that social work and social services has been undermined by three decades of failed policy and it's time to redesign the system around the principles of community social work.
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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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Estrategias para la Transformación Escolar
David Towell comparte otras notas sobre el desarrollo de estrategias para lograr la transformación escolar desde dentro.
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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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Basic Income and Disability
Building on his work with Jim Elder-Woodward, Simon Duffy outlines the case for using basic income principles to reform disability benefits.
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Strategies for School Transformation
David Towell shares further notes on developing strategies for achieving school transformation from within.
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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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Learning Disability, Autism and Human Rights
A guide co-produced by the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR), together with people who have learning disabilities, autism, or both and their families, carers and support workers.
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What Kind of Region Do We Want to Live In?
As the UK battles with Brexit, citizens in West Yorkshire are invited to join We Share The Same Skies in an alternative approach to politics.
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Stories of Our Lives
Catherine Hale has edited five stories describing the reality of living with and managing a life with severe energy impairment.
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Self-Directed Support for Service Providers
This report on Self-Directed Support in Europe sets out strategies for service providers to work in partnership with people with disabilities and their families.
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Shameful Attack on Disabled People
Brian Collinge explains how the government's failure to update the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) for people entitled to social care acts as another form of theft.
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Inclusion Demands Communication
Colin Newton argues that we need low tech, accessible communication systems that can be learned easily by everyone.
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Simplicity Parenting
Kim John Payne's book explores the unnecessary pressures and stress placed on children in the modern world and offers practical solutions.
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Valedictory
John O'Brien outlines the achievements of Dane County's system of supports as the system is now replaced by a system of managed care.
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Close Down the ATUs
The Centre for Welfare Reform made a submission in April 2019 to the Joint Committee on Human Rights calling for the closure of all ATUs.
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We Need to Talk But Not About Brexit
Sheffield's Festival of Debate shows that social progress in the UK only begins when we start talking to each other.
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The Inclusive Headteacher
Inclusive Solutions work around the world to advance inclusion for all in schools and in the wider community.
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Policed Industrialisation of Healthcare
David Zigmond reflects on the enforced closure of his GP practice and imagines an intelligent dialogue with the forces of regulation.
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Excluding Citizens with Disabilities from Voting
Matthew Potocnik describes the barriers created by the social care system in Australia to the active citizenship of disabled people.
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Money as a Human Right
Maria Lyons combines an analysis of economics with an understanding of inclusion to offer a radical argument for basic income.
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Electric Vehicles: Good or Bad?
Philip Adams provides an introduction to the benefits of using an electric car.
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The Long Shadow of Winterbourne
The values of inclusion and person-centredness which must underpin support are being undermined by regulations that promote institutionalisation.
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Childcare Policy and the Economy
Childcare policy in the UK wrongly assumes that professionalised solutions are always best for children and families.
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UBI and Health
Existing health research demonstrates why basic income will have very positive health impacts and why welfare conditionality is harmful.
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Transgender Children and Social Work
This paper explores how social workers and professionals can approach an understanding of the complexity of working with transgender children.
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Doing the Donut at the G20
Respected economist Kate Raworth shows how sustainability and social justice can be used to evaluate economic success.
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Sustainability Strategies for Local Area Coordination Programmes
Advice for Local Government on how to extend and strengthen the application of the Local Area Coordination (LAC) model in practice.
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Mental Health and Continuity of Care
David Zigmond asks the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care whether mental health can be advanced by procedures instead of relationships.
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Crisis Prevention
This guide has been written by families for families of children and adults either with learning disabilities, autism or both.
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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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Life after Violence
An Inclusion Europe report on how women with intellectual disabilities cope with the violence they have experienced in institutions.
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Conversations About Advancing Inclusive Schooling
How national family associations and other NGOs in Latin America are seeking to promote and support educational transformation.
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Life Nourishment
A review of Simon Goldsmith's book Life Nourishment, which explores how to build relationships and community
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Austerity's Victims
One million adults with a learning disability in the UK who have suffered because of government measures since 2010.
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Regulation in Education
David Zigmond tells the story of Eve, a teacher whose joy in her work is being strangled by over-regulation.
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Making Healthcare Human
John Burton interviews David Zigmond and together they explore the growing inhumanity of modern approaches to healthcare.
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Real Devolution for Yorkshire
The Campaign for a Yorkshire Parliament is about the kind of Yorkshire we want for our children, grandchildren and future generations.
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Health Needs Equality
Mike Grady makes the health case for radical cross-government reforms to end poverty, reduce inequality and building a fairer society.
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How Can We Know What People Need?
What Barbro Borge learned at the Manavodaya Institute International Facilitation Course on a Carl Poll Scholarship.
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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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Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA)
A statement from the Centre for the #WOWdebate on the Government's reasons for refusing to carry out a Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA).
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Unjustified Imprisonment
Alain Catzeflis argues that the ongoing scandal of the enforced detention of young people with autism demands more than another review.