... as essential to develop user‐controlled organisations, and it is argued that they should be based on the social model of disability. Capacity‐building techniques such as information provision, training and meeting together are seen as enabling users to gain skill and confidence. © Emerald Group Publishing...

...Ann Macfarlane An independent disability equality consultant examines the wider context in which the innovative Wiltshire user‐controlled Best Value review of direct payments should be perceived, and directly challenges some current policy and practice. © MCB UP Limited 2002 User Control...