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Publication day!! 🌸

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September 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We are all ‘people with lived experience’. But this phrase is fast becoming yet another a label to mean ‘them’.

*New blog post* - People with lived experience

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People with lived experience
In my previous ‘What do we call them?’ post, I wrote about ‘people we support’ and ‘people who draw on care and support’ – two phrases that are increasingly replacing references to ‘service u…
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August 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Instead of all the conversations about ‘demand’, it’s time to demand a different conversation.

New blog post: Words that make me go hmmm: Demand

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Words that make me go hmmm: Demand
While many words make me go hmmm, there are some that make me squirm the most, either due to what they reflect about the way we think about people (like ‘case’ and ‘non-compliant’) or about the way…
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May 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Service users. Customers. Clients. Cases. People we Support (PwS). People who draw on social care.

Why is it so hard for us just to talk about people? We? Us?

*New blog post* - What do we call them?
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What do we call them?
As part of the Gloriously Ordinary Language programme I run with Tricia Nicoll, we spend a full day focusing on the language we use to communicate with and about people. We begin these se…
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July 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Often our language implies some people are different from the rest of ‘us’. One such term is ‘special’.

*New blog post*: Words that make me go hmmm: special

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Words that make me go hmmm: Special
Often our language implies some people are different from the rest of ‘us’. Words like ‘disorder’, ‘deficit’ and ‘divergence’ suggest deviance from what, and who, is ordinary. One such term is ‘spe…
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November 2, 2024 at 7:08 AM
August 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Following on from last week’s blog post about dehumanising and re-humanising language and practice here’s part two: how to be human.
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How to be human
“We can talk about inclusion. We can talk about diversity. But what we really need to talk about is how to be human.” Elly Chapple [1] In their brilliant book about “learning how to make our social sy...
rewritingsocialcare.blog
February 10, 2024 at 8:00 AM
As Elly Chapple rightly says, ‘human’ is “a label we all share”. Yet many of the other labels we so liberally apply imply that older and disabled people are lesser human beings…

New blog: Human
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Human
I talk and write a lot about seeing people as human beings, about being human, and about how much of the way we currently work in the ‘human services’ is actually pretty inhumane. So, I thought it...
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February 3, 2024 at 8:50 AM