Welcome to the main website of Shaping Our Lives.
Shaping Our Lives National User Network is an independent user-controlled organisation, think tank and network. We started as a research and development project but became an independent organisation in 2002. We now work with a wide and diverse range of service users. Click here to find out more about Shaping Our Lives.
On this website you can find out about publications on user involvement, some produced by Shaping Our Lives and some by other organisations. You can have a look at our most recent newsletter (published May 2009) by downloading it here.
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- Thursday and Friday 10th and 11th September 2009, University of Bath 4th Annual Conference of the national Social Work Action Network. Conference themes: -‘I didn’t come into social work for this: managerialism and resistance -Poverty, class and social work -Developing SWAN as a national organisation -Building alternative futures for social work Click here for the 'Call for Papers' and here for Conference flyer Date added: 01/07/2009 EU Equal Treatment DirectiveThis directive would ensure equal treatment across the four strands (age, sexual orientation, religion or belief and disability) in the areas of social protection, including social security and health care; education; and access to and supply of goods and services which are commercially available to the public, including housing and transport. This applies to both public authorities and private sector bodies providing goods and services. Click here to find out more Date added: 18/06/2009 Putting people first: working together with user-led organisations New government document about Local Authorities working with user led organisations. March 2009 |
We are always keen to hear feedback about this website. If you have any comments please email jenny@shapingourlives.org.uk.
