Papers
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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.
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Energy Impairment Easy Read
This is the Easy Read version of the Energy Impairment and Disability Inclusion report produced by the Chronic Illness Inclusion Project.
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Good Things About Individual Service Funds
An easy read guide to Individual Service Funds or ISFs. A great way to manage your support.
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Closer to Home
Amy-Grace Whillans-Welldrake reports on the progress of Greater Manchester devolution and explores the possibility and desire for even deeper devolution.
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I Feel Forgotten
The Chronic Illness Inclusion Project's submission to the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into the impact of coronavirus on people with protected characteristics.
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Energy Impairment and Disability Inclusion
This ground-breaking report outlines the barriers facing people with chronic illness and explores the concept of energy impairment.
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Coronavirus Act 2020: Easy Read
Dorset Advocacy have shared their Easy Read guide to how the Coronavirus Act might affect your care and support.
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Basic Income and Independent Living
Basic income (UBI) could have major benefits for disabled people, but the independent living movement needs to be fully included in the conversation.
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Participation at 45 Degrees
Colin Miller has compiled 12 short essays on techniques for citizen-led change and constitutional reform in partnership with Compass.
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The Hub at Yeovil
The Hub at Yeovil is an example of a community bringing young disabled people together to build lives of citizenship and useful employment.
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A Commissioners' Guide to Individual Service Funds
This guide offers a commissioner's perspective on how to implement Individual Service Funds and widen self-directed support beyond Direct Payments.
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Self-Direction Worldwide
Lynn Breedlove observes the competing conceptions of self-directed support emerging around the world.
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Adventurous Social Work?
Tim Keilty describes how self-directed support can be successfully applied to help families stay safe and create solutions to avoid their children going into care.
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ALLFIE Manifesto for Inclusive Education
The Alliance for Inclusive Education's (ALLFIE) manifesto demands Government moves to a fully inclusive education system to support human rights.
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Social Work Writing and Bureaucracy
Why has writing reports, plans, case notes and assessments come to dominate everyday social work, often at the price of real social work practice?