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.
Jennifer Taylor, Vanessa Williams, Raymond Johnson, Ian Hiscutt, Maggie Brennan
2007
This book explores the experiences of people with learning difficulties, how they are treated and what needs to change.
Fran Branfield, Peter Beresford
2006
This report provides an exploration of the state of service user networking and knowledge in the mid-2000s, with a focus on what impact these activities were having, what problems they faced and what impact they might have had for the future.
Michael Turner, Peter Beresford
October 2005
This report documented the problems that service users encountered when receiving payments for participating in user involvement initiatives while also receiving state benefits.
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.
Michael Turner, Peter Beresford
2005
This report outlines the definition, nature and operation of user-controlled research as practiced at the time.
Enid Levin
March 2004
This guide is designed to help service users, carers and providers of social work education and training work together on degree programmes.
Michael Turner
2003
This report collects the overall findings of Shaping Our Lives' early development projects, carried out in conjunction with the Black User Group, Ethnic Disabled Group Emerged (EDGE), Footprints, Waltham Forest Black Mental Health Service User Group, and Service Users' Action Forum.
Michael Turner, Phil Brough, R.B. Williams-Findlay
2003
This report describes the implementation and results of the Our Voice in Our Future project, set up in 1999 to identify key issues for service users in the future of welfare, rights and entitlement in social care and disability.
Peter Beresford
2003
This book advocates for supporting peoples' empowerment in our 'knowledge society' through user involvement in research and through the valuing of the first-hand knowledge and experience they bring to the table.
Michael Turner
1998
Read this report from 1998, about the origins of Shaping Our Lives. It covers how the project was established and our aims.
