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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The Corruption of Social Care Reform
Social Care is poorly understood that debates about how to improve or reform it are often empty of meaning.
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Building Bridges
Bridging Support can be a powerful means of accelerating people's ability to leave institutional services, like ATUs.
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Personal Budgets
An Easy Read guide plus film explaining the 4 different ways of funding your care and support and managing your Personal Budget.
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Our Care Home in Our Community
We have lost sight of the true meaning of care and care homes are big business, driven by profit, cut off from our communities.
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Growing Peer Support
A report on the peer-led crisis support in mental health services focusing on the work of PFG Doncaster.
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Avoiding Misconceptions When Designing Supports
We need to readjust our thinking to overcome the prejudices against disabled people built into the modern world.
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Trying Out Individual Service Funds (ISFs)
Self-Directed Futures has been working alongside colleagues from Bristol City Council (BCC) commissioning team to develop their Individual Service Fund offer.
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Disability Activism for the Environment
Disabled people can be champions for community and environmental change and active citizenship brings personal growth.
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A New Way Home
John Dalrymple and Frances Brown speak about their work with Radical Visions in Scotland and their guide A New Way Home.
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Local Area Coordination and Prevention
Nick Sinclair is the Director of the Local Area Coordination Network in England and Wales and describes here the innovation and its impact.
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I Already Have A Job
New research from the Chronic Illness Inclusion project on energy limiting chronic illness and work.
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Energy Impairment and Social Care
There are many people with energy limiting impairments and chronic illness who are either not getting social care or are getting inappropriate care.
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Starcross Hospital
Important testimony from those who lived and worked in a long-stay institution for people with learning difficulties.
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A New Way Home New Edition
A practical guide to leaving institutional care and returning to your community.
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DCWW England: PFG the Home of Peer Support
Members of the People Focused Group (PFG) in Doncaster explain what peer support truly means.
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The Power of Language
Language is powerful it can make or break people; this webinar examines the language that helps and encourages us to leave behind the language that harms.
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Supporting and Developing the Workforce for ISFs
This guide from Skills for Care was developed over several months by the South West Individual Service Fund Network and several Fellows of the Centre for Welfare Reform.
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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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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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Killed By The State? Social Policy Abused
Mo Stewart describes the outcome of 10 years of independent disability studies research into the social policies and malign foreign influences which have undermined the UK…
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Sorry We Missed You
Ken Loach's film reveals the brutal reality of the modern gig economy and, as David Zigmond reflects, this is also a growing reality in health and social care.
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Why is Self-Directed Support So Hard?
An overview of the global and historical development of Self-Directed Support (SDS) published in association with the European SDS Network (SKILLS).
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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.