Some reflections for managers in children's services on what we've learned about self-directed support over the past few decades, including what does NOT help.
The Leadership Centre took part in the 2016 NHS Transformathon by providing thoughts and insight on our place based work and sharing our recent publication, The Art of Change Making.
Creating tomorrow today: a radical manifesto for leaders of health and careHelen Bevan
Slides from the talk "Creating tomorrow today" that Goran Henriks and Helen Bevan gave at #Quality2020 today. The slides set out the principles of "simple rules" for transformation & explains our 7 simple rules for leaders that we've developed over the past 9 years. #Quality2020
The Leadership Centre took part in the 2016 NHS Transformathon by providing thoughts and insight on our place based work and sharing our recent publication, The Art of Change Making.
Creating tomorrow today: a radical manifesto for leaders of health and careHelen Bevan
Slides from the talk "Creating tomorrow today" that Goran Henriks and Helen Bevan gave at #Quality2020 today. The slides set out the principles of "simple rules" for transformation & explains our 7 simple rules for leaders that we've developed over the past 9 years. #Quality2020
WINTalk Project Connect Keynote "Designing Organisations To Be More Human"Phoebe Tickell
"Organisations are generally the place we manifest our potential and action in the world. With roughly 80,000 hours spent in work and a critically challenged planet with 7.7 billion people, we have to re-think the way we think about work.
A new generation is rising up, looking for work that has meaning, purpose, flexibility and agency. An existing workforce is living and working amidst uncertainty and increasing levels of change. The future is de-centralised — and yet we need to stick together more than ever before.
In our technological and networked future, instead of fearing our fate, let’s ask ourselves: What are the things that make it worth being a human for the next 100 years? How can we design organisations that enable humans to thrive, and continue to attract the best talent to have a real and positive impact on the world?
We’re hearing about smart contracts, collective intelligence, self-driving cars and robotic warehouses. As we automate more of what we do, and gain access to tools that unlock new ways of organising, where does this leave the humans?"
This talk was given on the 26th March 2019 for the Project Connect Keynote (https://the-project.co.nz/home#about).
The WINTalk Project Connect Event Series is a collaboration between AUT (Auckland University of Technology), Wynyard Innovation Neighbourhood and the US Embassy of New Zealand, bringing together the respective successes of AUT’s Project Connect event programme and Wynyard Innovation Neighbourhood’s WINTalk events.
To subscribe to stay updated on upcoming talks and trainings on more horizontal and human practices for work, please subscribe here: http://www.phoebetickell.com/subscribe.
We all connect to people’s stories better than facts and figures, which is why it’s important to learn how to tell and share good stories through case studies. Simple quotes and photos alongside a human-interest story can bring projects to life.
Read this guide if you want to learn:
1.What is a case study?
2.Why is it important?
3.Telling a good story
4.How to build a case study
Panel organized for the RECAST conference in Santa Fe, marking the 20th anniversary of the public process that created the Santa Fe Railyard Redevelopment. Panelists included: Joel Mills, Cheryl Morgan, Erin Simmons, and Thea Crum. The panel explored issues facing cities today and multiple democratic methodologies (participatory budgeting, democratic urbanism) for city building.
From Seven-Figure Loss to Industry Leader: This Century-Old NPO Prioritized i...Sachin Doshi
The key to employee-driven impact is an employee-first culture – the mantra is echoed by the likes of Richard Branson and Kip Tindell but is often (falsely) regarded as a significant financial burden or implemented as a list of superficial fringe benefits. A truly integrated employee-first philosophy promises significant ROI in the form of decreased turnover, increased engagement and productivity, improved mission outcomes – and in the case of Mental Health America, a seven-figure turnaround and industry-leading impact.
This presentation highlights the myriad benefits of assimilating an employee-first approach into the heart of an organization. How did MHA’s leadership and culture shift transform the “impact-ability" of its employees and enable it to lead its field? How does great culture drive great ideas?
72 quotations that @HelenBevan posted with tweets during 2019Helen Bevan
Each page in this slide deck contains a quotation that I posted as a visual with a tweet during 2019. I used them to illustrate the point I was making in the tweet. I have attempted to group the quotations by similar themes in this deck. You may not agree with all of the quotations but I hope they might inspire, motivate ad/or challenge you as they have me. Helen Bevan
Talk given by Dr Simon Duffy to the Multicultural Community Council of South Australia, exploring the potential for empowerment and human rights in aged care services.
Realising the Potential of Consumer Directed CareCitizen Network
Simon Duffy ran this workshop for COTA Australia and Home Care Today to explore how best to build on the opportunities created by Consumer Directed Care as it is implemented in Aged Care.
Exploring the Reality of Self-Directed SupportCitizen Network
Simon Duffy explores the lessons that can be drawn from the UK experience of self-directed support. He outlines the key features of a good system for people, families and professionals in Perth, WA.
WINTalk Project Connect Keynote "Designing Organisations To Be More Human"Phoebe Tickell
"Organisations are generally the place we manifest our potential and action in the world. With roughly 80,000 hours spent in work and a critically challenged planet with 7.7 billion people, we have to re-think the way we think about work.
A new generation is rising up, looking for work that has meaning, purpose, flexibility and agency. An existing workforce is living and working amidst uncertainty and increasing levels of change. The future is de-centralised — and yet we need to stick together more than ever before.
In our technological and networked future, instead of fearing our fate, let’s ask ourselves: What are the things that make it worth being a human for the next 100 years? How can we design organisations that enable humans to thrive, and continue to attract the best talent to have a real and positive impact on the world?
We’re hearing about smart contracts, collective intelligence, self-driving cars and robotic warehouses. As we automate more of what we do, and gain access to tools that unlock new ways of organising, where does this leave the humans?"
This talk was given on the 26th March 2019 for the Project Connect Keynote (https://the-project.co.nz/home#about).
The WINTalk Project Connect Event Series is a collaboration between AUT (Auckland University of Technology), Wynyard Innovation Neighbourhood and the US Embassy of New Zealand, bringing together the respective successes of AUT’s Project Connect event programme and Wynyard Innovation Neighbourhood’s WINTalk events.
To subscribe to stay updated on upcoming talks and trainings on more horizontal and human practices for work, please subscribe here: http://www.phoebetickell.com/subscribe.
We all connect to people’s stories better than facts and figures, which is why it’s important to learn how to tell and share good stories through case studies. Simple quotes and photos alongside a human-interest story can bring projects to life.
Read this guide if you want to learn:
1.What is a case study?
2.Why is it important?
3.Telling a good story
4.How to build a case study
Panel organized for the RECAST conference in Santa Fe, marking the 20th anniversary of the public process that created the Santa Fe Railyard Redevelopment. Panelists included: Joel Mills, Cheryl Morgan, Erin Simmons, and Thea Crum. The panel explored issues facing cities today and multiple democratic methodologies (participatory budgeting, democratic urbanism) for city building.
From Seven-Figure Loss to Industry Leader: This Century-Old NPO Prioritized i...Sachin Doshi
The key to employee-driven impact is an employee-first culture – the mantra is echoed by the likes of Richard Branson and Kip Tindell but is often (falsely) regarded as a significant financial burden or implemented as a list of superficial fringe benefits. A truly integrated employee-first philosophy promises significant ROI in the form of decreased turnover, increased engagement and productivity, improved mission outcomes – and in the case of Mental Health America, a seven-figure turnaround and industry-leading impact.
This presentation highlights the myriad benefits of assimilating an employee-first approach into the heart of an organization. How did MHA’s leadership and culture shift transform the “impact-ability" of its employees and enable it to lead its field? How does great culture drive great ideas?
72 quotations that @HelenBevan posted with tweets during 2019Helen Bevan
Each page in this slide deck contains a quotation that I posted as a visual with a tweet during 2019. I used them to illustrate the point I was making in the tweet. I have attempted to group the quotations by similar themes in this deck. You may not agree with all of the quotations but I hope they might inspire, motivate ad/or challenge you as they have me. Helen Bevan
Talk given by Dr Simon Duffy to the Multicultural Community Council of South Australia, exploring the potential for empowerment and human rights in aged care services.
Realising the Potential of Consumer Directed CareCitizen Network
Simon Duffy ran this workshop for COTA Australia and Home Care Today to explore how best to build on the opportunities created by Consumer Directed Care as it is implemented in Aged Care.
Exploring the Reality of Self-Directed SupportCitizen Network
Simon Duffy explores the lessons that can be drawn from the UK experience of self-directed support. He outlines the key features of a good system for people, families and professionals in Perth, WA.
This is the full set of slides given to people, families, services and state officials in South Australia. It includes the hopes and fears of people with disabilities about the forthcoming implementation of NDIS.
Design principles for a global movement on disability supportCitizen Network
This workshop was run by Simon Duffy in Vancouver 2015 - exploring how the international community of those developing better systems to advance citizenship and improve disability support could better work together.
The Development of Self-Directed Support in FinlandCitizen Network
These slides were from a presentation by Dr Simon Duffy at the launch of Suunta - the new agency to promote self-directed support in Finland. Dr Duffy outlines some of the main strategies needed for successful implementation and the pitfalls to avoid.
Dr Simon Duffy talked to folk at TMG Wisconsin about the importance of the idea of equal citizenship for all and what this means in practice. He explored best practice in self-directed support and how to help people advance their own citizenship through the use of the keys to citizenship.
This talk was given to some of those leading the design of Australia's NDIS and setting out international and English experience of achievements and pitfalls.
Unleash the Beast is a book written to help you optimize every part of you, mental, spiritual, physical, so you can unlock the enormous potential lying untapped within you.
Networked Energy: Energy independence for AlderneyCitizen Network
by Chris Cook and Marcus Saul, Island Power
As Research Fellows at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security, at University College, London, Marcus Saul and Chris Cook researched and developed the Pacific Natural Grid resource resilience strategy.
Here they explain how Denmark has led the way in creating sustainable networks of community-based energy production and distribution.
This has been transformative for Denmark, enabling it to become independent from the oil and gas industry’s dominance. But it is also transformative for communities, who are now creating their own energy economies.
Dr Dave Beck gave this talk for Part 5 of the ‘Grassroots Policies for Farming, Food and Wildlife’ webinar series, hosted by Citizen Network.
In his presentation Dr Beck discusses the harms caused by the monopolisation of supermarkets in the food industry. He also explores the positive possibilities of local currencies.
Dr Beck is a Lecturer at the University of Salford, Manchester.
The webinar recording is available to watch on Citizen Network's website at: www.citizen-network.org
Simon Duffy gave this presentation at the final conference of the UNIC Project, in Brussels in September 2023, providing an overview of personal budgets and the challenges ahead.
Sabrina Espeleta of War on Want outlines the enormous and growing level of world hunger. She explains how a few global corporations control the vast majority of food production and supply and markets exploit the food market, leaving communities, especially in the Global South at great disadvantage. Local peasant farmers are now organising to achieve food sovereignty, seeking to farm in ways in harmony with nature and to meet local needs. The Global North needs to respect the rights and autonomy of these people rather than to continue the pattern of exploitation.
This presentation was given on 6 July in Part 4 of a webinar series on grassroots policies for farming, food and wildlife.
Watch the recording at: https://citizen-network.org
Simon Duffy was asked by the Mayor’s Greater Manchester Charity and UBI Lab Manchester to talk at a recent roundtable event on the relevance of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to the problem of homelessness.
These are the slides from that talk. In summary Duffy argued that UBI is relevant to reducing homelessness in two slightly different ways:
1. UBI would help prevent homelessness - UBI addresses the inequalities in income and housing that create the risk of homelessness.
2. UBI would help people escape homelessness - UBI gives people a vital tool which significantly helps people change their situation in times of crisis.
Find more free resources on basic income at: www.citizen-network.org
A presentation for the One Yorkshire Committee introducing Democratic Yorkshire - a voluntary alliance consisting of a group of organisations and individuals interested in planning a better future for our County through modern democratic means secured in a written constitution.
In this presentation exploring planning law, Laird Ryan talks us through the planning process, explores what we can and can't influence and helps us consider how best to create real, organic and local alliances that make the best use of our energy.
To find out more about the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement please visit: https://neighbourhooddemocracy.org
Citizenship is our Business - The Avivo StoryCitizen Network
Avivo is one of the founding organisations in Citizen Network. they are also pioneers in self-direction and personalised support in Australia. Over the past few years they have been reorganising themselves around the principle that everyone is a citizen - and supporting everyone, including paid staff, to be citizens is their central purpose. Avivo are also leading Citizen Network's Rethinking Organisations programme and networking with other organisations on this journey.
Dr Simon Duffy spoke to Doncaster's Mental Wellbeing Alliance about the importance of thinking about what good help really means. He explored the importance of shifting power, resources and thinking upstream.
Markus Vähälä, CEO of Citizen Network, outlined the development of the cooperative as a framework to support the further development of Citizen Network as part of the 2022 Building Citizen network Together events hosted by Eberswalde University.
At BuildingCitizen Network Together in early 2022 Simon Duffy and James Lock discussed the development of Citizen Network and its current approach to membership and explored with members from all around the world next steps for its development.
These slides are from a talk Dr Simon Duffy of Citizen Network gave to Café Economique in Leeds, making the case for basic income. The argument set out is that UBI is one necessary part of a range of reforms necessary to support citizenship and strengthen community life. This talk preceded a (rather fiery) debate with Anna Coote of NEF who argued against UBI.
Simon Duffy gave this talk for Radical Visions on home, citizenship, institutionalisation and neighbourhood democracy. He explains why institutions are wrong and what we might be do to end the drive towards institutionalisation.
A presentation for the Estia International Confernce in 2021 from Dr Simon Duffy exploring personal budgets, citizenship and community and the challenges for services aiming to work in partnership with people with disabilities in Greece.
An example of good practice in inclusion in employment from Slovenia, shared at the Day Centres Without Walls conference, hosted by JDC in Lithuania. Day Centres Without Walls is an Erasmus+ project funded by the EU.
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Welcome to the new Mizzima Weekly !
Mizzima Media Group is pleased to announce the relaunch of Mizzima Weekly. Mizzima is dedicated to helping our readers and viewers keep up to date on the latest developments in Myanmar and related to Myanmar by offering analysis and insight into the subjects that matter. Our websites and our social media channels provide readers and viewers with up-to-the-minute and up-to-date news, which we don’t necessarily need to replicate in our Mizzima Weekly magazine. But where we see a gap is in providing more analysis, insight and in-depth coverage of Myanmar, that is of particular interest to a range of readers.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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1. 5
things we’ve learned about
self-directed support
plus some thoughts about the RAS
Simon Duffy
2. • Internationally the shift towards self-directed support in
public services (in some form or other) has been going
on since at least the 1960s.
• The process has been slow, and largely driven by a
mixture of pressure from people and families, with
occasional bursts of leadership from within system.
• It has been consistently associated with outcome
improvements, but it challenges vested interests and
the inertia of bureaucratic systems.
• The latest wave of reform in the UK, named
personalisation, is a mixed bag of positive intentions
and confused thinking but it is, and is likely to continue
to be, an important theme for the decades ahead.
3. • I began experimenting with self-directed support in
London in the early 1990s working with people with
learning disabilities
• In 1996, as part helping people leave institutions and
establishing Inclusion Glasgow, I invented the
concept of an Individual Service Fund.
• As head of In Control from 2003-2009 I constructed a
model of self-directed support for social care in
England. I also worked with Pippa Murray in Sheffield
to develop a model of personalised support and
education for children and young adults.
• In 2009 I established The Centre for Welfare Reform to
support more radical change in the design of the
welfare state.
4. “Design is a funny word. Some people think
design means how it looks. But of course, if you
dig deeper, it's really how it works. The design
of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although
that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it
worked. To design something really well, you
have to get it. You have to really get what it's all
about. It takes a passionate commitment to
really thoroughly understand something, chew it
up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people
don't take the time to do that.”
Steve Jobs
5. “That's been one of my mantras — focus and
simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex:
You have to work hard to get your thinking clean
to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end
because once you get there, you can move
mountains.”
Steve Jobs
6. “For every complicated problem, there is a
solution that is simple, direct, understandable
and wrong.”
H L Mencken
8. 1. It’s NOT about markets
• There is no evidence that the benefits of self-directed
support are about markets - except for the
fact that the basic right to take your budget
elsewhere might help ‘wake people up’
• It’s not markets - it’s people, community and
creativity that make the difference in people’s lives
9.
10. 2. It’s NOT about consultants
• Government funded enthusiasm tends to
manufacture phoney expertise - we seek comfort in
going to consultants - the fatter the better - to hold
our hands.
• But real expertise comes from people with lived
experience of the innovation.
• Champions of innovation need to create their own
peer support.
11.
12. 3. It’s NOT about brokerage
• There is no evidence that the benefits of self-directed
support rely on complex system of
independent advocacy or service brokerage.
• Sometimes a fresh face and pair of hands can
help, but mostly its about giving the people who
are already there the chance to do something
better.
13.
14. 4. It’s NOT about planning
• People do not change their lives by planning to change
their lives. But planning (and training to plan, or training
to train to plan) becomes one of the biggest ways the
system wastes people’s time and money
• People learn to change their lives by having control
and using that control to make positive changes, plus
• By learning from other people who’ve made positive
changes
• Change is simple and social - keep it that way
15.
16. 5. It’s NOT government
• If a positive new way of working develops, and people
feel free to experiment, then many people (not
necessarily all) will change what they do as they come
to believe in the better way of working.
• But if this new way of working is seen as a formula
designed and promoted by government then it
becomes easy to kill people’s sense of their own
freedom and the real meaning of the change vanishes.
• Government and bureaucracies don’t innovate.
20. 1. It demands LEADERSHIP
• The most important person for making real change
happen is the person themselves - and their immediate
friends, family or those who support them. Self-directed
support simply is a form of citizen leadership.
• For people in the system leadership is exercised by
creating environments which make it easier for people
and professionals to exercise such leadership.
• The middle-manager is critical to this process of
liberation.
21.
22. 2. It demands TRUST
• There will be no change unless there is a
substantial shift in the amount of real and
meaningful power that people can exercise.
• This demands trust in people’s capacities and a
system is that happy to let people learn through the
natural process of trying things out, making
mistakes and changing their minds.
• This requires us to recognise the negative impact
of institutional solutions that freeze people into bad
decision-making.
23.
24. It demands CLARITY
• People cannot be empowered unless they know
where they stand - their rights - their entitlements -
and their responsibilities.
• Ambiguity, complexity and obscurity always tend to
serve the long-term interests of the powerful.
25.
26. It demands CONNECTION
• Above all people seek a decent human relationship
with professionals in public services.
• Above all people learn about what’s possible from
their peers.
• This means the social aspect of any new system is
critical.
27.
28. It demands CITIZENSHIP
• We need to rethink the goal of public services.
• We need to move away from treating people as
passive subjects, and start to see people as active
citizens.
• Community and positive social change are
achieved by citizens.
• Public servants must, above all else, see
themselves as servants of active citizenship.
31. • The RAS - Resource Allocation System - was jargon
I created to encourage local authorities to let people
know what they were entitled to as early in the
process as feasible
• It was not intended to rationalised rationing or make
cuts - although in practice this is what it has often
become
• The first models were simple offered a simple rule of
thumb to creative and indicative budget upon which
further planning and a final budget could be agreed.
• In my view the combination of thoughtless
implementation and the ‘need’ to make cuts has led
to progressively more dangerous approaches.
32. • Our responsibility to set a fair budget must remain
in place.
• We may be able to make a reasonable estimate
using some empirical grounded guidance - but
nobody has provided any evidence that there is a
reliable formula for setting fair and reasonable
budgets.
• The most important two things in setting a fair
budget are:
• Do people think it will do the job
• Does experience show it is actually working
36. Do without doing.
Act without action.
Savour the flavourless.
Treat the small as large,
the few as many.
!
Meet injury
with the power of goodness.
!
Study the hard while it's easy.
Do big things while they're small.
The hardest jobs in the world start out easy,
the great affairs of the world start small.
!
So the wise soul,
by never dealing with great things,
gets great things done.
!
Now since taking things too lightly makes them worthless,
and taking things too easy makes them hard,
the wise soul,
by treating the easy as hard,
doesn't find anything hard.
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching