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Mencap's New Strategy
Mencap, who are one of the most important organisations in England working with people with learning difficulties, have announced some big changes.
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A Self and Family Directed Adventure
Fionn and Jonathan are a father and son team who are leading the way in showing what people with Down Syndrome can achieve.
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It's My Choice
James has Down Syndrome and he uses an Individual Service Fund (ISF) to maintain control over his support and his life.
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Does the Benefit System Work for You?
Simon Duffy talks to members of Learning Disability England (LDE) about the idea of basic income as a way to reform the benefit system.
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DCWW Scotland: Innovations in Supported Employment
Values Into Action Scotland have been leading innovation in supported employment for two decades.
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Positive Psychology & Person-Centred Planning
Simon Duffy interviews Michaela Wegener on Positive Psychology and its relationship to person-centred planning and the advancement of citizenship for all.
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Where Do We Stand?
We stand at the gates of hope - with an open heart, an open mind and an open will.
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Seeking Transformation
It is easy to talk about transformation, but it's much harder to make change meaningful and significant.
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Social Care's Response to COVID-19
Chris Watson shares his observations on how commissioners in health and social care have responsed to the COVID-19 crisis.
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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Unjustified Imprisonment
Alain Catzeflis argues that the ongoing scandal of the enforced detention of young people with autism demands more than another review.
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The Fight for Equal Citizenship
Wendy Perez describes the ongoing work to try and help people with learning difficulties take their rightful place in society as equal citizens.
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At the Heart of Inclusion
Nick Maisey reflects on his learning from his time exploring international best practice in inclusion on the Westpac Bicentennial Foundation Fellowship.
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Euston, We Have a Problem
Wendy Perez has complained to Euston Station in London about the ongoing failure of their support to disabled people.
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The Binary Trap
Alain Catzeflis explores why our commitment to social justice has been in such decline and argues that a new approach must avoid binary thinking.
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The Great Troubled Families Fraud
Simon Duffy reviews Professor Gregg's book on the fraud and dishonesty behind the Troubled Families Programme.
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Becoming True Citizens
How Bournemouth People First’s LifeLink project is building connections for life by encouraging meaningful relationships and contribution.
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Supporting People with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities
This guide provides key standards to improve the standards of support to people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
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Make A Difference - Support Valued Experiences
John O'Brien has produced a colouring book to be used to help us build a valued life for ourselves or those we care about.
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Building Bridges between Refugees and People with Disabilities
Vasilis Kalopisis proposes that if we value inclusion we must do so for everyone & we all benefit from bringing together excluded groups.
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Improving the Keys to Citizenship
Wendy Perez and Simon Duffy talk about how they are trying to improve the Keys to Citizenship as a model that works for everyone
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Don't Crowd Out People with Learning Disabilities
Alain Catzeflis argues that people with disabilities are being harmed by bad Government policy and people with learning disabilities are doubly excluded.
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Don't Cramp My Style
Simon Cramp's biography offers a real insight into a man with learning difficulties who has made a significant difference to social policy in England.
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Legal Capacity Restoration (Quip)
This report explores the impact of Quip's work in trying to restore legal capacity to people with intellectual disabilities in the Czech Republic.
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Progress on Personalised Support
This report builds on an international survey of support organisations to develop a model of personalised support on behalf of Citizen Network.
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Inviting Arts & Humanities into Social Services
Gord Tulloch argues that community organisations supporting people with intellectual disabilities need to open themselves up to the fullness of human creativity.
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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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Back to Bedlam
This report describes how and why support of people with a learning disability is heading backwards in the UK because of austerity and the complicity of civil society.
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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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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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It's My Home
Adrian Kennedy's poem, It's My Home, based on Sam Sly's Guide to Keys to Citizenship, in a film by Ben Drew's Open Future Learning.
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Evaluation of Wee Enterprizers Project
This evaluation of the Wee Enterprizers Project describes what was learned as people began to explore using self-directed support as a step into business life.
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Breaking the ATU Impasse
Steven Rose wonders why Government policy to close ATUs and end the admission of people with learning disabilities to private hospitals has been so poor.
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How Unofficial Social Policy Drives Change
Steven Rose argues that social policy for people with learning disabilities has largely been driven by collaborative values-based work, not official government policy.
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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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Complex Needs Learning History
John O'Brien shares the perspectives of leading practitioners in personalised support from the New York State Learning Institute.
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OmaPolku - My Path
NEO-OmaPolku is an innovative Finnish organisation helping people with intellectual disabilities to start their adult life with a mixture of peer and professional support.
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Deinstitutionalisation in Scotland
John Dalrymple explores the lessons learned from deinstitutionalisation in this important paper, first published in Tizard Learning Disability Review in 1999.
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Community Care & Inclusion for People with an Intellectual Disability
Robin Jackson and Maria Lyons are the editors of a series of essays reviewing the history of services for people with intellectual disabilities.
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Supported Loving
Claire Bates is starting a campaign to share what people with disabilities think makes for both good and poor support around relationships.
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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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Stronger Together - Family Event
Bringing Us Together and Respond hosted a gathering of disabled children and young people, parents and families to listen to their views and experiences on care and support.
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What is Happening in Social Care
Jan Walmsley asked local people with learning disabilities and their families to share their experience of adult social care.
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Born to Dance
Sue Blackwell shares the story of her daughter Jen's journey as she sought to follow her dreams and live a life of her own choosing.
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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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Autism in the Care System
Alice (mother of an autistic looked after child) describes the challenge of supporting a son who rejects human contact in the current care system.
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Care Cuts: Indignity & Uprootedness
An anonymous account of the reality of social care for one man with complex disabilities in the United Kingdom.
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DanceSyndrome
Founded by Jen Blackwell, DanceSyndrome is an inclusive dance charity that aims to inform and empower people through dance.
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I Would Never Have Believed
A report from the Thistle Foundation and Animate on Learning from the Individual Service Fund (ISF) Pilot undertaken in 2014.
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Raising Our Game
David Towell shares ideas on the strategies we might need to build a future in which we live in harmony with ourselves, each other and the natural world.
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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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Totally Wrong List
An overview of all the Government policies which harm or disadvantage people with learning disabilities in England.
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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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The Dane County Difference
Dane County in Wisconsin, USA has been a beacon of social innovation for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities for decades, John O'Brien shares their work.
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Next Steps on Inclusion
Simon Duffy wonders why progress to inclusion seems to have stalled and sets out the case for personalised support.
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The Right to Community Living
David Towell outlines three keys to citizenship and three pathways to positive change in the lives of people with learning disabilities and in our communities.
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Claiming Full Citizenship
The Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship has created a website hosting a series of films following the Claiming Full Citizenship conference in Vancouver in 2015.
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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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Making Freedom Real
Mel and George O'Neil share evidence that the use of Makaton, which gives people the power to communicate and exercise freedom, is being neglected in adult life.
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Cultivating Thinking Hearts
Zipperlen & O'Brien share writings to offer lifesharers the opportunity to grow & be more responsible to outsiders concerned with their households & communities.
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MyChoice Pad
MyChoicePad is an innovative technology that helps people with communication difficulties to express themselves and be heard.
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Pathfinders Review 2
David Towell reviews Pathfinders, the latest book by John O'Brien and Beth Mount published by Inclusion Press.
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Politics & Economics of Personal Budgets
In the first of a short series of essays Simon Duffy explores the political and economic challenges of moving towards personal budgets.
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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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Pathfinders
This book by John O'Brien and Beth Mount describes what we can learn from pathfinders with disabilities who have helped us move towards a more inclusive community.
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Who Will Care After I'm Gone?
FitzRoy share research undertaken with parents and care professionals supporting people with learning disabilities, to better understand the worry and anxiety they face.
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Shared-Life Communities for People with a Learning Disability
Dr Stuart Cumella reviews academic research that has attempted to measure the quality of life of people with a learning disability living in shared-life communities.
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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 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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Re-Thinking Community Care: The Camphill Village Model
Maria Lyons explores research on Camphill and the importance of considering intentional community and shared living in order to achieve greater community inclusion for all.
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Friendship
A clear and accessible guide for people with learning disabilities and their allies, written by Kay Mills, to help people form friendships and find love.
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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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Trust Is The Key
Inclusion, based in Glasgow, use Individual Service Funds (ISFs) and Personalised Support but trust is the deeper issue.
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Marking the Political Parties
The Results of Learning Disability Alliance England's Citizen Jury held before the General Election in May 2015.
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Learning Difficulty or Learning Disability
Wendy Perez explains why she prefers the term 'learning difficulty' to 'learning disability'.
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Respectful Language
Laura (Mole) Chapman explores what lies behind the idea of respectful language and reflects on the use of language in the practice of inclusion.
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Visiting Radio Valo
Radio Valo interviewed Simon Duffy about self-directed support and individual budgets on his visit to Lyhty (home of PKN) near Helsinki.
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It's a Cogworld
Peter Leidy sings, inspired by conversations with John O'Brien and members of Wisconsin's Developmental Disabilities network about the dangers of bureaucracy.
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Relational Basis of Empowerment
Model describing the two critical dimensions for empowerment and mutual respect developed by Karl Nunkoosing and Mark Haydon-Laurelut.
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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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Lessons from Intentional Communities
John O'Brien reflects on what social care can learn from communities such as L'Arche and Camphill.
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Transition & Integration - changing our starting point
Pippa Murray and Simon Duffy reflect on the core elements of an effective transition process in a system of self-directed support.
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Alison Chalmers realised it was time for her daughter to walk with independence, however difficult she found it as a mother.
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The Person Who Most Inspires Me
Alison Chalmers describes all the ways in which her daughter inspires her.
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Learning Disability is Not a Mental Disorder
Robin Jackson asks why in Scottish law people with learning disabilities are treated as if they have a mental disorder.
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Why I Couldn't Care Less
Alison Chalmers writes with candour about the struggles of caring.
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Supporting Staff in Person-Centred Work
Sam Sly explores how to support staff in person-centred services when money is tight.
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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.
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History of Keys to Citizenship
Sam Sly describes where the Keys to Citizenship came from and how they've changed over time.
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Quality Checking Government
A survey by the Learning Disability Alliance England on the impact of the UK Government on people with learning disabilities.
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Getting There
Simon Duffy's second report on the work of Beyond Limits and Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group to bring people home.
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Who Cares?
Author Robin Jackson offers a critique of the UK's social care system and the negative impact of ideology, marketisation and bureaucracy on people's lives.
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The Threat of Micro-Institutionalisation
Robin Jackson explains why people with learning disabilities are threatened by a growing trend to micro-institutionalisation.
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Inside Supported Living
Melanie O'Neil describes her time as a support worker for people with learning disabilities in a 'supported living' group home.
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LDA England Newspaper
Learning Disability England Alliance newspaper highlighting the results of the Quality Checking Government survey and setting out a vision for a good society.
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LDA England Survey
A breakdown of the results from the recent Quality Checking Government survey carried out by Learning Disability Alliance England.
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LDA England Survey Results
This is a slide presentation of the results of Learning Disability Alliance England's Quality Checking Government survey.
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Strengthening Communities
Jo Battersby undertook research in the UK to try and determine the role of government in strengthening communities to deliver social change for people with disabilities.
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Evaluation of Employment Outcomes of Project Search UK
The South West Employment Institute (SWEI) commissioned this evaluation of employment outcomes of Project SEARCH (PS) in the UK.
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Practical Funding Guidance for Young People
This is a report from the South West Employment Institute (SWEI) on Practical Funding Guidance for Young People seeking employment.
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Self-Advocacy
Simon Duffy talks about self-advocacy and Gary Bourlet's work with and on behalf of the People First movement.
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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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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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Best Buddies UK
The mission over the next few years is to develop Best Buddies programmes in every region throughout the UK - join in.
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Citizenship is for Everyone
In this film Simon Duffy explains why Citizenship is for Everyone.
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Wendy Perez on Citizenship
In this film Wendy Perez talks about Citizenship drawing on her work and her own experiences.
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Person Centred Planning 'Tools'
Peter Kinsella reviews his time working in human services and examines the negative role of jargon, complexity and bureaucracy in people's lives.
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The Problem with Dawkins' Intolerance on Down Syndrome
Mariana Cervantes-Burchell explains why the intolerant prejudice of scientists like Richard Dawkins is based on ignorance.
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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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Don't Judge Me, Listen
Sam Sly urges us to really listen to people's dreams and desires when supporting them to build a future for themselves, it's crucial to get this right.
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The Harm Professionals Can Do
Too often people's gifts and skills are being ignored when professionals plan with them, there is no excuse, this must change now says Sam Sly.
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Quality Checkers are the Future of Regulation
Sam Sly shares her enthusiasm for the creation of a National Association of Quality Checkers.
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The Words We Use
Darlington Learning Impairment Network explore how the words that professionals use to describe people very often don’t support person centred thinking.
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Reflections on Common Threads
John O'Brien shares learning on Approaches and Contexts for Planning Everyday Lives following the Common Threads conference in Ontario in April 2014.
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Quality of Life Standards and Toolkit
Produced by Changing Our Lives, The Quality of Life Standards and Toolkit aims to raise people’s expectations about what a good quality of life really means.
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Help - What It Really Means
People with learning disabilities often get help that isn't very helpful. Wendy Perez explains what help really means.
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Stay Up Late
Stay Up Late is a charity that was started by the punk band Heavy Load. Its mission is to change the way people with learning disabilities live in the UK.
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Individual Service Funds (ISFs)
Researchers Animate discover that Individual Service Funds (ISFs) and Inclusion have had a positive impact on people's lives.
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Stopping Hate Crime
This report describes the work of Devon and Cornwall Police to stop hate crime and better support people with learning disabilities.
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The Impact of Cuts in Haringey
A report from Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership Board following a survey on the impact of cuts in Haringey to services for adults with Learning Disabilities.
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Unlocking the Imagination
Simon Duffy's book first published in 1996 now updated, offers a path for commissioners who want to create the conditions for citizenship and stronger communities for everyone.
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Citizenship for All: An Accessible Guide
Simon Duffy and Wendy Perez have written this accessible guide to citizenship - what it means and how to achieve it. This guide is part of the Citizenship for All project.
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What Price Friendship?
Paul Williams describes how the UK's social care system often seems to obstruct the development of friendships for disabled people.
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Open Future Learning
Founded by Ben Drew, Open Future Learning provides inspirational online training for folk supporting people with learning disabilities.
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Right to the Same Life
Wendy Perez says people with learning (intellectual) disabilities have the right to the same life as the rest of us.
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Lennox Castle Stories
A social history project led by a group of ex-residents of a large institution built on the outskirts of Glasgow to house people with learning disabilities.
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The Driving Up Quality Code
The Driving up Quality Code is about providers of care and support doing all that they can to make sure that what happened at Winterbourne View never happens again.
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Ordinary Lives: Citizenship for All
Exploring the challenges of achieving ordinary lives and citizenship for people with learning disabilities with Gary Bourlet at the H&SA Conference.
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Radio Valo
Radio Valo is a multi-media platform for people with intellectual disabilities in Finland. It hosts interviews, documentaries, radio shows and much more.
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How We Make a Life
Self-directed support systems need to pay more attention to enhancing people's ability to work and contribute as citizens.
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Is Work First on the List?
A presentation for VIA Scotland on why work should be first on the list of actions for citizenship.
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Housing to End the Prison of Hospital
Sam Sly explains why special hospitals are often worse than prison and why there is a need for bespoke housing solutions.
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No to Competing Services - Yes to Human Rights
Sami Helle explains to the European Parliament that people with intellectual disabilities should not be trapped in the 'cheapest service'.
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Focusing on Outcomes
Tim Keilty from New Prospects explains their practical and simple approach to focusing on outcomes without the hype.
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No Words is No Barrier
Sam Sly explores the steps necessary to ensure that children and adults with limited verbal communication can get involved.
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Returning Home
Sam Sly reflects on the barriers to progress in getting people home from abusive and institutional placements.
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Institution Watch
This is a regular publication of Canada's national self-advocate association and main family organisation, advocating for people with intellectual disabilities.
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Supporting Community Contribution and Self-Determination through Person-Centred Work
John O'Brien presented this paper at Finland's Valta virtaa conference held in June 2013.
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Freedom Fighters
Clare Hyde describes the stories of five freedom fighters as they leave the institution behind them.
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Love
Sam Sly writes about how important love is, in all its forms, to having a great life.
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I Know What I Want
Aarne Rajalahti shares lessons and stories from the early development of self-directed support in Finland.
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What is Wrong with Supported Living?
Simon Duffy explores how the principles of supported living have been corrupted and how we need to move to a focus on rights.
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The Relational Basis of Empowerment
Karl Nunkoosing and Mark Haydon-Laurelut explore how fundamental human attitudes underpin society's approach to empowering disabled people.
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Returning Home
Simon Duffy outlines a promising innovation from Plymouth that aims to return people home from institutional care.
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Freedom
Written by Simon Duffy, this new practical guide gives advice on supporting people to be free.
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Investing in Ordinary Lives
Investing in Ordinary Lives is an initiative to increase the supply of housing for people with learning disabilities by drawing on alternative sources of funding.
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How We Try to Keep Our Promises
Tim Keilty explains how New Prospects have designed a simple approach for helping people to network and support each other.
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Community Networks
A community network is a simple but powerful innovation developed by New Prospects - team work.
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In Memory of Carl Poll
Carl Poll was a leading innovator and champion for people with learning difficulties - he will be greatly missed.
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The Process of Change
Sam Sly explains that the real challenge after Winterbourne View is to ensure the real drivers for change are in place.
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Building Community with Beth Mount
This film made by Open Future Learning explores the value of finding out about our local communities in order to create the opportunities for rich and meaningful lives.
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The Traps and Detours of Deinstitutionalisation
Sam Sly writes about the challenge of moving people out of hospitals and institutions after the Winterbourne View Review.
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Building Community for the Great Transition
In this paper David Towell explores how we can begin to build communities which are sustainable and inclusive.
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Too Complex, Too Challenging?
Sam Sly describes how Beyond Limits are applying personalisation principles to support people with the most complex needs.
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Radical Social Work
Sam Sly of Beyond Limits explores how radical social work can be inspired by personalisation and people with complex needs and challenging behaviour.
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Microenterprise and People with Learning Disabilities
Authors Tess Reddington and Jan Fitzsimons write about the work opportunities available for people with learning disabilities.
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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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Getting Help if you have a Learning Difficulty
This is a guide to getting support in Sheffield if you have a learning difficulty.
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No Going Back
Authors Tim Keilty and Kellie Woodley write about the forgotten voices from Prudhoe Hospital.
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Lyhty - Finnish Punk Rock and Much More
A Finnish community hub which is helping people with intellectual disabilities create music, media and so much more.
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Watching Brief
The care and support white paper has some good commitments in it, but some of the biggest issues have been ignored, say Don Derrett and Simon Cramp.
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Decisions, Decisions
The Mental Capacity Act has helped many people with learning disabilities to make decisions for themselves since it came into force in 2007.
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It's My Life
This is a creative alternative to day services operating from the assumption that everybody belongs and can join in community life when and how they like.
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What Can I Do To Make A Difference?
Sam Sly writes about the importance of working together, sharing our experiences, resources and energy in the year ahead.
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Shared Management
Shared Management is an approach for organising practical support using the expertise of people, families and service providers.
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Michelle and NDIS
Dell Stagg describes how she rescued her daughter from an institutional service and the need to respect families in the development of Australian funding system.
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Person Centred Planners Lose the Plot
The story of how one self-advocate with learning difficulties came into conflict with the Person Centred Planning industry.
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What is Assessment and Treatment?
Sam Sly describes the difficulties faced by families who have seen their children lost to the phoney system of 'assessment and treatment units'.
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Family Leadership
A film about Pippa Murray's work to make family leadership authentic, building on real wealth and strengthening the human spirit.
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Better Safe Than Sorry
A presentation given for SACID in Adelaide on safety and how we might protect the interests of people who are most vulnerable to harm.
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Better Nights
An evaluation of a Choice Support initiative to improve night-time support for people with learning disabilities as services are personalised by the use of an ISF.
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Jan-Net
A host of learning disability networks coordinated by Janet Cobb.
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Disability Horizons
Disability Horizons is a magazine full of articles and resources to help disabled people achieve whatever they wish.
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Citizenship & Work
A presentation on the interconnected topics of citizenship, work and self-directed support.
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Support for People with Negative Reputations
Sam Sly explains how Beyond Limits will be working to bring people back home from institutional services.
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Help and Connect
Help and Connect is a powerful innovation, developed by Skills for People, to bring together their different forms of advocacy.
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West Lancashire Peer Support
Les Scaife describes how the West Lancashire Peer Support Group was born and the work it continues to do.
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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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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.
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Journey to Citizenship
Talk given in Helsinki on the progress made towards citizenship by disabled people and particularly by people with learning difficulties.
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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…
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Goodbye Pat
A moving tribute by David Towell on the death of his sister Patricia.
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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.
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Longcare Survivors - The Biography of a Care Scandal
John Pring's powerful account of institutional abuse, its history and its long-term effects.
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Community Living
An online magazine campaigning for equal citizenship for people with learning difficulties.
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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.
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Two Sides of the Same Coin
Norma Curran explores two competing conceptions of the economic place of people with learning difficulties.
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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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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.
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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.
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Using an Individual Service Fund (ISF)
How one family used an Individual Service Fund (ISF) to improve care and support for their boys with complex needs.
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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.
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Towards a Good Life?
A discussion of the Western philosophical tradition and the lives of people with learning difficulties.
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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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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.
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Enjoying the Rollercoaster Ride
One mother's story of her rollercoaster journey and the inspirational achievements of her son.
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Cuts to UK Benefits
Ben Baumberg of the LSE provides an overview of the cuts in UK benefits and how they target disabled people.
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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.
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Help and Connect
A new form of community-brokerage called Help and Connect which is being piloted by Skills for People in Newcastle.
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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.
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Connections that matter
The impact of Grapevine's work on people with learning disabilities and their families.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Planning with Families
Pippa Murray summarises the main things you need to do to help families plan for themselves and disabled family members.
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Cuts - Yes, Minister
Geoff Tudor imagines the discussions that led to plans to cut mobility allowance for people inside residential care homes.
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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.
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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 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 - 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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Five Basic Tasks
The core competencies of any agency aiming to support people who are at risk social exclusion and devaluation
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Five Tasks of Good Support
Good support means helping people connect and be part of their community.
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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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Keith Achieves Citizenship
Keith has been able to move away from institutional living and achieve real citizenship under his own control.
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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.
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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
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Connection Not Inclusion
Carl Poll explains the subtle but important difference between connecting and including
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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.
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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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Safety for Citizens
Simon Duffy explores the relationship between safeguarding and personalisation and the risks that come from institutionalisation.
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Personalised Transition
An evaluation of a new and radical policy innovation in Sheffield which gives young people with disabilities and their families a totally new level of control over their life…
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Personalised Pathway
This model enables families with disabled children to take effective control over their support, while getting coordinated expert support.
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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.
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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.
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Being the Boss is Best
An article which describes the benefits of being your own boss.
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Keys to Citizenship
A guide to getting good support for people with learning disabilities.
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Citizenship Model
This model describes how the citizen should be central to the design and delivery of public services.