Articles

Here you will find all of the articles and publications produced by Paradigm and our consultants, together with any relevant publications produced by others that we have been able to find on the web.
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Delivering the promise of Community Living: A perspective from the UK
It is a great pleasure and privilege for me to be able to offer a modest contribution to this important edition of Integracia on deinstitutionalisation. This theme is important to me because my pro...
17 August 2011
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The Office for Disability Issues: Independent Living Strategy Demonstration projects reports
The demonstration project aim is to show how to bring about, and embed, the changes required to increase choice and control for disabled people.
The Support, Planning and Brokerage (SAB) project...
15 August 2011
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Social care and health integration – the service user perspective
“Yet, is integrated service delivery always the right thing in every case? Well, it depends on what you want to achieve and for whom. In many cases, joint and integrated working between health a...
15 August 2011
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The cost of implementing personal health budgets
The third interim independent evaluation report on the personal health budgets pilot programme has been published by PHBE, the Personal Health Budgets Evaluation team led by the Personal Social Servic...
19 July 2011
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CQC to double inspections of adult care services
Adult social care services would be inspected at least once a year under Care Quality Commission plans to call time on "light-touch" regulation. The plan, revealed exclusively to Community C...
19 July 2011
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Co-production: A manifesto for growing the core economy
As far back as Aristotle, philosophers have understood that family and community relationships are a second economy. Environmental economist Neva Goodwin has called it the ‘core economy’. ...
19 July 2011
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In This Together: Building knowledge about co-production
This report tells the stories of people who are improving public services by working with the people who use them and delivering public services in a radically different way. It describes a range of p...
19 July 2011
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The Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework - Handbook of definitions
This DH Data Definitions Handbook sets out the technical detail of each measure in the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, with worked examples - to minimise confusion and inconsistency in reporting...
19 July 2011
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Open Public Services White Paper
Open Public Services pledges that a range of providers from the voluntary and private sectors will be able to bid to run services. The paper says services should be procured at an individual level whe...
19 July 2011
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Research on cost benefit
Martin Knapp of LSE and Think Local, Act Personal have published a cost benefit evaluation of timebanking, befriending and community navigator schemes. It found that timebanking cost £450 ...
11 July 2011

