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Energy Impairment Easy Read
This is the Easy Read version of the Energy Impairment and Disability Inclusion report produced by the Chronic Illness Inclusion Project.
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Good Things About Individual Service Funds
An easy read guide to Individual Service Funds or ISFs. A great way to manage your support.
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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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I Feel Forgotten
The Chronic Illness Inclusion Project's submission to the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into the impact of coronavirus on people with protected characteristics.
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Energy Impairment and Disability Inclusion
This ground-breaking report outlines the barriers facing people with chronic illness and explores the concept of energy impairment.
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Coronavirus Act 2020: Easy Read
Dorset Advocacy have shared their Easy Read guide to how the Coronavirus Act might affect your care and support.
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Basic Income and Independent Living
Basic income (UBI) could have major benefits for disabled people, but the independent living movement needs to be fully included in the conversation.
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Self-Directed Support Graphics in Greek
Infographics on self-directed support translated into Greek 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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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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Self-Direction Worldwide
Lynn Breedlove observes the competing conceptions of self-directed support emerging around the world.
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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…
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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…
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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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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.