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Welcome

Welcome to the main website of Shaping Our Lives.

Shaping Our Lives National User Network is an independent user-controlled organisation. 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 our look at our most recent newsletter (published November 2008) by downloading it here.

SOLNET, the Shaping Our Lives Networking Website has lots of news - have a look to find out about over 250 user controlled organisations and 'friends' plus events, publications, consultations, jobs and more...
SOLNET - www.solnetwork.org.uk

Current major Shaping Our Lives projects

Relationship matters: building our knowledge and networks

funded by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission

Click here to go to our latest newsletter and read more about this project. The five regional networking events have now taken place and we are compiling a report of the discussions that took place. This will be available in April and will be publicised here on the website and in our next newsletter.

Developing Diversity

funded by the Department of Health

Click here for more information about Developing Diversity.

The Standards We Expect

funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

A national consultation with service users about participatory approaches to person-centred care.

Click here to go to The Standards We Expect website.

Click here download a copy of 'Person Centred Support - A Guide for Service Users', a publication written as part of the Standards We Expect project

For further information about the work of SOL, please get in touch by using the Contact us page.

Website feedback

We are always keen to hear feedback about this website. If you have any comments please email jenny@shapingourlives.org.uk.

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