February 2023
This short guide provides some headline tips for Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPOs) who provide services for Deaf and Disabled people from all communities.
December 2022
Download our handy checklist for ensuring venue accessibility when organising inclusive events and conferences.
January 2023
Shaping Our Lives supports making involvement payments to people who share their experiences of using health and social care services. This is our statement detailing our position on this.
December 2022
In November 2022 Shaping Our Lives held the UK's first user-led inclusive involvement conference. Here you can download the speaker notes and discussion notes.
April 2022
Here is the Shaping Our Lives statement on health and social care - what needs to be done to fix a broken system.
Peter Beresford and Colin Slasberg
December 2021
In this article, Peter Beresford and Colin Slasberg critique the latest social care white paper.
Peter Beresford and Colin Slasberg
June 2021
This article was written in response to the The Equalities and Human Rights Commission document regarding Independent Living.
Becki Meakin and Jurgen Grotz
July 2020
Practical ideas and examples to make online meetings more accessible.
Peter Beresford
In this blog post, Peter Beresford, chair of the event, highlights some of the key discussions that took place around volunteering - how do people understand and define volunteering, and what is its impact on volunteers and those they work with.
Peter Beresford, Mark Harrison
September 2020
This blog looks at the failures of outsourcing service delivery to international non-governmental organisations internationally and to private businesses at home in the UK.
Becki Meakin and Sarah Yiannoullou
May 2020
These notes summarise an event to create dialogue between user-led organisations and funders about these issues.
Becki Meakin and Sarah yiannoullou
May 2019
This paper sets out the issues fuelling the crisis facing user-led organisations in the hope of prompting positive discussion about potential solutions.
Becki Meakin
April 2019
These notes document a focus group event held in April 2019, which heard from Disabled people about how special care dental services could be redesigned to work better for patients.
Peter Beresford
November 2018
Transcript of a presentation given by Peter Beresford at the November 2018 Reclaim Social Care Conference, discussing the failings of the UK's social care system and pointing to new models of support.
Peter Beresford, Mark Harrison
November 2017
This blog outlines the dire condition of social care provision in England and Wales and advocates for the establishment of a right to independent living and a universal national independent living service as potential solutions.
Peter Beresford
March 2016
This document outlines Shaping Our Lives' written evidence given to the Committee of Public Accounts on the use of personal budgets in social care.
Peter Beresford
June 2013
This paper explores first hand experience and its potential role and central importance in the construction of knowledge.
Peter Beresford, Vicky Nicholls, Michael Turner
2009
This review summarises examples of user-controlled research circa 2009, with the aim of facilitating a better national understanding of the diverse nature of user-controlled research projects concerning health and social care research in England.
Peter Beresford
September 2008
This paper explores a new conceptual framework for care built on the idea of person-centred support, or 'personalisation'.
Commission for Social Care Inspection
October 2007
This report outlines the key themes from a 2007 seminar on the benefit barriers to involvement - that is, the ways in which the current benefit system discourages or prevents people in receipt of benefits from getting involved.
Peter Beresford
March 2007
This paper provides collects the views of service users about social work roles and tasks.
Fran Branfield, Peter Beresford, Enid Levin
February 2007
This paper explores how service user and care organisations can develop their involvement in the undergraduate and post graduate social work degree and drawing on successes of the first two years, identifying existing barriers to successful partnership and possible ways forward.
Fran Branfield, Peter Beresford
July 2005
This report brings together service users' views on the government's green paper on adult social care, Independence, Well-being and Choice.
