Articles
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…