Articles
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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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Campaigning for a Fair Society
Simon Duffy gave one of the talks at the launch of the Manifesto for a Fair Society at the House of Lords on the 12th March.
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Who Really Benefits from Welfare?
Simon Duffy looks at how the tax benefit system really works and wonders who are the real beneficiaries of this system?
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Is Personalisation Dead?
Simon Duffy explores some of the problems involved in implementing personalisation and the fundamental question of entitlements that remains unresolved in England.
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120,000 Reasons to Listen to Women
Clare Hyde wonders whether the government's thinking about focusing on 'problem' families is informed by an understanding of the reality of domestic violence.
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Integrating Mental Health Funding
This essay argues that the integration of social care and healthcare funding in Mental Health is still a priority and highly feasible.
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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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Self-Determination Doesn't End as We Age
Terry Lynch shares his and his mother's experiences of growing older and maintaining dignity and self-determination through independent living.
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Personalisation in a Time of Cuts
Lawyer Kate Whittaker describes the conflict between the current drive to cut social care spending in the UK and the application of personalisation.
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Flexible Funding Routes in Further Education
Fellow Pippa Murray explains the funding routes that will allow for the development of more personalised and flexible education packages for young people.
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The Meaning of Dignity
A short essay written by Simon Duffy on the true meaning of dignity.
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Implementing Self-Directed Support
This short essay offers some thoughts about the lessons other countries might want to draw from the English experience of implementing self-directed support (SDS).
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Wolf Wolfensberger - A Tribute
Wolf Wolfensberger, the father of normalisation died in February 2011. Nan Carle pays tribute to the man she describes and 'the definitive agent of change'.
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Fear is Always a Choice - What Will You Choose?
A thoughtful insight on how we might manage our emotional wellbeing in difficult times written by Nan Carle.
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NHS Values & Personalisation
This short essay describes how to face some of the fears raised about the application of personalisation within the NHS.
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The Key to Support Planning
Liam Toner explains how support planning could become genuinely empowering rather than just another bureaucratic hurdle.
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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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Revisiting Barclay
Bob Rhodes and Ralph Broad argue that social work and social care should return to the thinking set out in the Barclay report and renew their commitment to community.
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Commissioning for Health Improvement
Brian Fisher describes a model developed in Lewisham which could shift healthcare away from institutional and hospital-based provision towards health improvement.
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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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Simplify the RAS
Resource Allocation Systems (RAS) have become too complex. Barnsley and The Centre for Welfare Reform are exploring a radically simplified version of the RAS.
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Do's and Don'ts for a New Script
This paper is a working document to help authorities 'rescript' their social work role - to make it more positive, enabling and effective.
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Real Welfare Reform
Real welfare reform is about designing a welfare state that ensures everyone gets the support they need to live good and positive lives as active citizens.
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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.