My good friend Graham W passed on the following info. interesting stuff – Community Care magazine released a survey carried out, mostly with social workers, looking at attitudes towards personalisation. Sadly not done from service users perspective:
Also it is 40 years since Alf Morris MP got the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act through Parliament. This was the first time that disabled people’s rights were properly recognised in the UK and is the reason why the UK has tended to be at the forefront of the disability movement internationally. There is more about the great man here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Morris
