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About the project

Between 2021 and 2023, Opus supported Citizen Network to research and develop a new progressive vision for social care. The core principles guiding this work were:

• Neighbourhood Focused – organised to support foster inclusive and welcoming neighbourhoods where everyone’s contribution is recognised and supported.

• People Powered – creating respectful relationships and encouraging peer support and neighbourliness, backed up by responsive professional support

• Human Rights Based – giving people who need support freedom, clear entitlements and the ability to participate and contribute in the way that works best for them

• Economically Secure – with no means-testing and proper levels of funding to enable full contribution and fair incomes for everyone

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Citizen Network is supporting disabled people, families, community groups to develop this vision in partnership with the City of Sheffield and sharing its learning nationally and globally through Citizen Network.