Shaping Our Lives, National Centre for Independent Living, University of Leeds Centre for Disability Studies

Developing social care – service users driving culture change

November 2007

This review looks at how service users and user-led organisations have brought about changes and improvements to social work and social care.

Commission for Social Care Inspection

Benefit barriers to involvement: finding solutions

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

The Changing Roles and Tasks Of Social Work From Service Users’ Perspectives

March 2007

This paper provides collects the views of service users about social work roles and tasks.

Fran Branfield, Peter Beresford, Enid Levin

Common Aims: A strategy to support service user involvement in social work education

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.

Jennifer Taylor, Vanessa Williams, Raymond Johnson, Ian Hiscutt, Maggie Brennan

We are not stupid

2007

This book explores the experiences of people with learning difficulties, how they are treated and what needs to change.