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Inclusive Community Development Network Online Forum
29 October 2020 | 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
“Whose community is it anyway – building on peer support to shift power towards neighbourhood democracy.”
The Inclusive Community Development Network ICDN invites you to this exciting online forum to hear Simon Duffy from the Centre for Welfare Reform in UK share his insights and experience in building disability power in communities, both locally and nationally.
This event is online and you can join by pressing the LINK
Meeting ID: 819 4575 2348
Passcode: 855936
About Simon Duffy
Simon Duffy is the founder and Director of the Centre for Welfare Reform ( https://www.centreforwelfarereform.org ) and the international coordinator of Citizen Network. Simon is best known for inventing personal budgets and for designing systems of self-directed support and works as a consultant and researcher with local social innovators and national governments.
Simon began work in the NHS and then went to work with Choice Support, where he led innovative work in social care on individualised funding and brokerage. After being a Harkness Fellow in 1994, Simon went on to found Inclusion Glasgow in 1996 and, following this, he helped establish several new organisations in Scotland, including Partners for Inclusion and Altrum.
From 1999 Simon began to develop self-directed support, as a system to reform the organisation of social care In 2003 he led the development of individual budgets and self-directed support in England as CEO of In Control. This work led to significant changes in social policy in England and Scotland, and in 2008 he was awarded RSA’s Prince Albert Medal, and in 2011 the SPA Award for outstanding contribution to social policy.
Simon has written extensively on moral, political and social issues. Some of his key publications include Unlocking the Imagination (1996), Keys to Citizenship (2003) Women at the Centre (2011) A Fair Income (2011) and Peer Power (2012) and The Unmaking of Man (2013). Simon is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Health Service Management Centre.