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Independent futures provides a timely and critical evaluation of user controlled services, identifying principle forces that inhibit their development and explaining the implications for social policy. It presents essential evidence and analysis for policymakers working within health, social care, education, housing and equality. It will also be a vital text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the social sciences and government and politics. Jane Campbell, Chair, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

... the book remains a powerful summary of the existing state of user-led services and a challenge to all involved to support user-led services in future. Professional Social Work This should be essential reading for decision-makers, politicians and, not least, disabled people with an interest in their own futures. Community Care Independent futures provides a timely and critical evaluation of user controlled services, identifying principle forces that inhibit their development and explaining the implications for social policy. It presents essential evidence and analysis for policy makers working within health, social care, education, housing and equality. It will also be a vital text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the social sciences and government and politics. Jane Campbell, Chair, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

... the book remains a powerful summary of the existing state of user-led services and a challenge to all involved to support user-led services in future. Professional Social Work This should be essential reading for decision-makers, politicians and, not least, disabled people with an interest in their own futures. Community Care

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Colin Barnes is Professor of Disability Studies and Geof Mercer is Reader in Disability Studies, both at the Centre for Disability Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds.

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