About Camphill and Social Care
Steve Briault (2015) "Commitment, Compromise and Communicide - Inner and outer challenges for the Camphill movement in the UK", published in 'The Present Age' and 'New View', December 2015 Link
Shared Lives Plus (2015), "A Shared Life is a Healthy Life. How the Shared Lives model of care can improve health outcomes and support the NHS. Foreword by Simon Stevens, Chief Executive, NHS England" Link
Maria Lyons (2015), "Re-Thinking Community Care: The Camphill Model." Link
Simon Duffy (2015), "Power and Love" Link to paper, Link to video
Steve Briault (2015), "Camphill Communities: living, learning and working in partnership with the “disabled” Link to paper, Link to video
Marcus van Dam (2015) "A healthy way of life" Link to paper, Link to video, Letter to the British Medical Journal
Stuart Cumella (2015) "Shared-Life Communities for People with a Learning Disability: A Review of the Evidence" Link to paper, Link to video, PowerPoint presentation
Alliance for Camphill, L'Arche, and others (2015), "Choice for Intentional Community and Shared Living", 20 page handout with presentations given at Westminster on 15 September 2015 Link to paper Link to website
Alliance for Camphill (2015) "Principles and aims" Link
John O'Brien (2015), "Surviving Cogworld" Link
Simon Caulkin (2015) "Botton: the fight goes on" Link
Robin Jackson (2015) "Who cares?" Link
Robin Jackson (2015) "The threat of micro-institutionalisation" Link
Simon Duffy, Sheila Hollins et al (2014) "Open Letter on Regulation" Link
Ivan Tyrell and John Seddon (2014) "How bureaucrats destroy public services, and what can be done about it" Read
Bob Rhodes and Richard Davis (2014) "The unintentional destruction of intentional communities. A discussion paper in association with LivesthroughFriends and Vanguard." Link and PDF
Simon Caulkin (2014) "Social care: who needs enemies?" Link
Alan Potter, Botton Village Camphill Community (2012) "Intentional Community as a continuing response to the Holocaust – The life of Peter Bergel and the Camphill Communities." Link
The Independent (2012) "Killing kindness with red tape" Link
In Control and Groundswell Partnership (2012) "Review of Camphill Village Trust" Link
Camphill Co-workers, Three Perspectives (2010) PDF (this is a large file and may be slow to load)
Nils Christie (1989/2001) "Camphill Village Communities in Norway" PDF This document is from the book called 'Beyond Loneliness & Institutions' about Camphill Norway. It was written by Nils Christie, who was and remains a Professor of Criminology at Oslo University, and a real voice of conscience in the country. It is sent with the author's express permission for our use.
"CVT Memorandum & Articles of Association" This is the founding charter of 1954 and still legally binding document underpinning the spirit and functioning of the Charity, The Camphill Village Trust Ltd (CVT). It states explicitly that CVT should support the forming of communities with Co-workers who are not bound by contracts. We have highlighted the sections supporting this. PDF
