Papers
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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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The Power of Freedom
A New Zealand Initiative report on the positive progress of self-directed support in New Zealand.
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The Quiet Progress of the New Eugenics
Eugenics is now being legitimised through a mixture of policies including euthanasia, genetic testing and the terminations of neonatal children.
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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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What Can We Do With Those Families?
Too often families are treated disrespectfully, even by those seeking to advance inclusion or person-centred work.
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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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I Already Have A Job
New research from the Chronic Illness Inclusion project on energy limiting chronic illness and work.
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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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The Creation of Preventable Harm
The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is a key element of the UK Government's welfare policy and has caused preventable harm and suicide by disabled people.
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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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Pregnant in An Age of Compliance
An exploration of pregnancy amidst the myths of medical technology and power.
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Los Maestros Como Líderes
Una breve guía para lograr una educación inclusiva y de calidad para todos.
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Teachers As Leaders
A short guide to achieving inclusive and quality education for all.
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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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What Price Preventable Harm?
Mo Stewart summarises the conclusions of the Preventable Harm Project which examined the causes and impact of the flawed WCA.
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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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Exploring the Strength of Community
The crisis in social care teaches us that the key to promoting wellbeing for all citizens lies in citizen action and neighbourhood democracy.
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Basic Income Plus: Easy Read Version
Basic Income Plus is a radical way to reform benefits by giving everyone enough to live on and ensuring people with extra needs get more.
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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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An Introduction to Basic Income Plus
Caroline Richardson and Simon Duffy outline a practical approach for making sure basic income works for disabled people and others who face extra costs.
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The Pathology of Control
Management of the NHS and other public services often produces harm by misunderstanding people's basic motivations.
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Where Do We Stand?
We stand at the gates of hope - with an open heart, an open mind and an open will.
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Seeking Transformation
It is easy to talk about transformation, but it's much harder to make change meaningful and significant.