Webinars
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Sharing Stories to Cultivate Democracy
Guest hosts Paul Wright and Selva Mustafa share stories of connection and community in Birmingham and Bury.
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Neighbourhood Democracy and Food
The Neighbourhood Democracy Movement (NDM) hosted this webinar with 4 invited guests to explore the relationship between food and democracy.
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A New Way Home
John Dalrymple and Frances Brown speak about their work with Radical Visions in Scotland and their guide A New Way Home.
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Organising for Neighbourhood Democracy
Rachel Payling, Wendy Lowder and Annabelle Macfadyen joined Angela Fell of the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement.
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DCWW England: PFG the Home of Peer Support
Members of the People Focused Group (PFG) in Doncaster explain what peer support truly means.
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The Power of Language
Language is powerful it can make or break people; this webinar examines the language that helps and encourages us to leave behind the language that harms.
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Stigma and Poverty: The Shame Game
Mary O'Hara discusses her book ‘The Shame Game’ sharing the perspectives of people who are living with the reality of poverty, and the toxic public policy narrative…
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Does the Benefit System Work for You?
Simon Duffy talks to members of Learning Disability England (LDE) about the idea of basic income as a way to reform the benefit system.
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Killed By The State? Social Policy Abused
Mo Stewart describes the outcome of 10 years of independent disability studies research into the social policies and malign foreign influences which have undermined the UK…
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DCWW Greece: Play Unified
Play Unified is a project to introduce inclusive practices into sports activities and link the Special Olympics movement to mainstream schools and sports.
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Much More to Life than Services
Joe Powell All Wales People First and Bob Rhodes LivesthroughFriends explain how people build good lives and the limits to social services.
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DCWW Scotland: Innovations in Supported Employment
Values Into Action Scotland have been leading innovation in supported employment for two decades.
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True Happiness & the Keys to Citizenship
Varun Vidyarthi explores the true meaning of happiness and how the keys to citizenship links to the wisdom of East and West.
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Two Neighbourhoods: Netherton & Springfield
Angela Fell and friends explain how the neighbourhoods of Netherton and Springfield reacted to the COVID-19 crisis by organising themselves.
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DCWW Italy: Connecting Communities
Kara Bobowski is a social co-operative which works to include disabled people and other groups needing support in the life of the local community.
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SDS Network: Social Service Reform in Wales
Damien Bridgeman explains the development of social service reforms in Wales where the ideas of citizenship and community have shaped policy.
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Norwich City Council: Creating Space for Community
Members of Norwich City Enabling Team and Adam Murray of the Old Library Wood community group share their experiences of trying to enable community action, participation and…
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Citizenship - the Key to a Good Life
In this talk Wendy Perez and Simon Duffy explain the keys to citizenship and how they have improved the model since it was first published in 2002.
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Exploring the Strength of Community
In this webinar Liz Leach Murphy and Sarah Holmes explore the factors that make for stronger and richer community life.
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Neighbourhood Democracy: Building Community in Spain
This webinar explores a growing innovative effort to develop community across the Spanish speaking world in work led by Plena Inclusion and many other partners.
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SDS Network: Individual Service Funds (ISFs)
Chris Watson of Self Directed Futures and Gary Kent of New Key and Jacqui Hendra of Devon County Council on ISFs.
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SDS Network: Developments in Finland
Leaders in self-directed support in Finland explain how systems are beginning to move towards and some of the early benefits
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SDS Network: Developments in Scotland
In the second SDS Network Webinar Keith, Danielle and Debbie described the development of self-directed support in Scotland. They explained its history and growth, its…
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SDS Network: COVID-19 and Overview
The first webinar from the SDS network covered the issues of how countries were responding to the COVID-19 crisis, what the crisis can teach us about changes we need for the future…