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Other useful publications

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User Involvement in Public Services - report of the House of Commons Public Adminstration Select Committee

House of Commons, May 2008

Peter Beresford, Chair of Shaping Our Lives, gave oral evidence to the Public Adminstration Select Committee regarding user involvement and some of his contributions are included in this report.

Reward and recognition: the principles and practice of service user payment and reimbursement in health and social care

Department of Health, August 2006

This guide aims to support local health and social care organisations with the principles and practice of reimbursing and paying service users for their involvement.

It aims to provide some consistency of approach and ensure that service users are treated fairly and appropriately according to their circumstances, so that they are able to make an informed choice about the arrangements concerning their involvement.

Developing Social Care: service users driving culture change

SCIE Knowledge Review 17

Based on a project carried out by Shaping Our Lives with the National Centre for Independent Living and the Disability Research Unit, this report looks at how user involvement has brought about changes in social care and social work and how such changes have become part of the culture of organisations providing services.

Common Aims: A strategy to support service user involvement in social work education

(SCIE Position paper 07; Fran Branfield, Peter Beresford and Enid Levin, Social Care Institute for Excellence, 2007)

Social Work Education: The international journal

Volume 25 Number 4 June 2006

Themed issue: Service Users and Carers in Social Work Education

Guest edited by Advocacy in Action/Suresearch Collective.

Involving service users and carers in social work education

(by Enid Levin, Social Care Institute for Excellence, 2004)

 

 

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