Service users Blog Posts

• Anorexia recovery looks different for professionals and people with lived experience

  09 Mar 2026

  • Holly Myers

  
• Mental health service users face higher sexual victimisation risk

  27 Feb 2026

  • Ioana Crivatu

  
• How do people experience avoidable harm in mental health social care?

  13 Sep 2023

  • Andie Ashdown

  
• From charity to social enterprise: a case study highlights challenges in adopting self-directed support policy

  24 Oct 2018

  • Jenny Fisher

  
• Direct payments in residential care: ideas for implementation and some concerns about their value

  04 Sep 2018

  • Martin Stevens

  
• Involve service users in design and delivery of services for better outcomes, advises new report

  03 Sep 2014

  • Alison Turner

  
• “Voluntary and independent sectors can participate in the delivery of commissioning support”, says report

  25 Nov 2013

  • Caroline De Brún

  
• The changing relationship between user and provider and its impact on quality

  07 Apr 2013

  • Caroline De Brún