Articles
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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.
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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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Proactive Primary Care
An example of how UK primary care can offer safer more supportive personalised care whilst saving money at the same time.
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How Can We Save the Big Society?
Gabriel Chanan and Colin Miller argue that the Big Society project will fail unless it focuses on real community development and volunteering.
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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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Unfair Cuts in Detail
The current social care system in the UK is deeply unfair and needs reforming; however current efforts by Central Government seem self-defeating.
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Changes to Housing Funding
Housing Options explains how current changes to the funding of housing will reduce housing mobility, home ownership and undermine supported living.
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Personalised Education
Personalised education is a widely stated ambition, and some local leaders are making progress, but central systems tend to undermine effective personalisation.
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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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Conditions to Work
The debate about conditionality in work and the benefits system is confusing and this does not help us build systems that encourage work and contribution.
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Integration through Personalisation
Only a model which examines the value and role of integration from the perspective of the citizen will begin to bring some much needed clarity into the current system.
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Avoid the Quantum Leap
Terry Lynch explores how to avoid those desperate placements in residential care, unnecessary hospitalisation or institutionalisation. Older people often need modest…
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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.