For links to user controlled organisations please see our networking website at www.solnetwork.org.uk.
Here are some links to other useful and interesting sites:
CDS is an interdisciplinary centre for teaching and research in the field of disability studies at the University of Leeds (England). The Centre incorporates and develops the work of the Disability Research Unit (DRU) and aims to promote international excellence within the field.
Community Care is dedicated to working together with social care professionals for best practice in social care and plays an intrinsic part in the social care field providing: practical advice, case studies and information for day-to-day practice; news and analysis on social care, health and housing; topical features on policy and practice; opinions from service users, practitioners and policy makers and hundreds of jobs for all levels and client groups plus career advice.
INVOLVE is an organisation that has been promoting patient, public, and service user involvement in research for nine years.
Folk.us is a group of consumers and researchers in the South West which meets regularly in Exeter, runs a training programme and publishes a newsletter.
JRF is one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK, spending about £7 million a year on a research and development programme that seeks to better understand the causes of social difficulties and explore ways of overcoming them.
The Social Care Institute for Excellence gathers and publicises knowledge about how to make social care services better. SCIE is an independent organisation created in response to the government drive to improve quality in social care services across England and Wales. It was launched in October 2001, has around 30 permanent staff and a board of 12 trustees who guide its work and ensure its independence.
SPRU is part of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York.
Shaping Our Lives is part of a consortium working on a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funding project looking at participatory approaches to person centred support
