social care
social work | self-directed support | personalised support | social services | personal budgets | individual service funds | commissioning | residential care | regulation | domiciliary care
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Much More to Life than Services
Joe Powell All Wales People First and Bob Rhodes LivesthroughFriends explain how people build good lives and the limits to social services.
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Service User Involvement in Social Work Education
An evaluation of the involvement of service users and carers in social work education focusing on the UK.
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Manavodaya and Congregate Care
Manavodaya has much to teach us about what real change requires and whether the COVID19 crisis will help us move away from congregate care.
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iDirect Citizenship Review 2019
iDirect provides completely individualised support to support people with learning disabilities to be full citizens.
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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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Growing New Models of Support
Chris Watson describes how using individual service funds can lead to new ways of supporting people in their own communities.
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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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Putting Personal Budgets in Their Place
Personal Budgets do not need to reinforce individualistic consumerism, they can be a route to a more collective approach where care is shared.
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SDS Network: Developments in Finland
Leaders in self-directed support in Finland explain how systems are beginning to move towards and some of the early benefits
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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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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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Contracting for ISFs
Chris Watson briefly outlines some of the main legal features of an Individual Service Fund (ISF) and explores how community hubs or micro-enterprises might use them.
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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 Greek
Infographics on self-directed support translated into Greek developed for the SDS Network.
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The heart and soul of person-centred planning
Beth Mount reflects on creating a person-centered practice that is rooted in the quest for justice.
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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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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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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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Dissent from Consensus
Bureaucracies and regulatory control systems undermine important social innovations such as person-centred planning.
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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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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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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…