Foreword ~ Baroness Ruth Lister Introduction ~ Peter Beresford and Sarah Carr Part I: Service users and social policy: an introduction Challenging Injustice: the importance of collective ownership of social policy ~ Danny Dorling Participation and solidarity in a changing welfare state ~ Peter Taylor-Gooby Social policy in developing countries: A post-colonial critique and participatory inquiry ~ Sweta Rajan-Rankin Advancing sustainability: developing participatory social policy in the context of environmental disasters ~ Margaret Alston Social policy and disability ~ Colin Cameron A case study of children's participation in health policy and practice ~ Louca-Mai Brady, Felicity Hathway and Emily Roberts Who owns co-production? ~ Sarah Carr Part II: Critiquing and reconceiving Beveridge's 'five giant evils': Key areas of British post-war social policy from a lived experience perspective Rethinking disabled people's rights to work and contribute ~ Jane Young Talking policy as a patient ~ Anya de Iongh 'We don't deal with people we deal with bricks and mortar': a lived experience perspective on UK health and housing policy ~ Alison Cameron Education (ignorance) addressing inclusive education: the issues and its importance from a participatory perspective ~ Tara Flood and Navin Kikabhai 'For work, we came here to find work': migrant Roma employment and the labour of language ~ Colin Clark Part III: The contribution of service user knowledges Disability policy and lived experience: reflections from regional Australia ~ Kathy Boxall, Adam Johnson, Lawrence Mitting, Suzanne Simpson, Stefan Zwickl, Judith Zwickl, Shae Kermit, Luke and Caroline Renewing epistemologies: service user knowledge ~ Diana Rose Pornography, feminist epistemology and changing public policy ~ Ruth Beresford Making social policy internationally: a participatory research perspective ~ Nicola Yeates and Ana B. Amaya Part IV: An inclusive life course and developmental approach to social policy Disabled children's lives: an inclusive life course and developmental approach to social policy ~ Mary Wickenden Troubled Youth and Troubling Social Policy: Mental Health From a Mad Studies Perspective ~ Lucy Costa Disability: an inclusive life course and developmental approach to social policy ~ Emmeline Burdett Independent living from a Black Disabled Woman's perspective ~ Michelle Daley Food poverty and the policy context in Ireland ~ Deirdre O'Connor Implementing race equality policies in British health and social care: a perspective from experience ~ Hari Sewell Participatory approaches to social policy in relation to ageing ~ Sarah Lonbay Death, dying and digital stories ~ Lisa Williams, Merryn Gott, Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Stella Black, Shuchi Kothari, Sarina Pearson, Peter James Simpson, Tessa Morgan, Marianne Grbin, Matua Rawiri Wharemate and Whaea Whio Hansen Part V: Transforming social policy People acting collectively can be powerful ~ Jennie Fleming Their participation and ours: competing visions of empowerment ~ Iain Ferguson A participatory approach to professional practice ~ Suzy Croft Dreams of justice ~ Tina Minkowitz Sustainable-participatory social policy ~ Marilyn Palmer Participatory social policy in a large EU research project ~ Joe Greener and Michael Lavalette, with Rose Devereaux and members of SUGAH Part VI: Campaigning and change Section One: Approaches to activism 'What Is strong, now what is wrong' An interview with Clenton Farquharson MBE Participatory social policy and social change: exploring the role of social entrepreneurship linked to forms of social and micro enterprises in the field of social care ~ Barbara Fawcett Public duty, whistleblowing and scandal: influences on public policy ~ Kay Sheldon Visual: Making the case for single sex mental health wards ~ Kay Sheldon 'Informed gender practice in acute mental health': when policy makes sense ~ Nicky Lambert #JusticeforLB: in search of truth, accountability and justice ~ George Julian and Sara Ryan Section Two: The role of online platforms and social media Guerilla policy: new platforms for making policy from below ~ Michael Harris A Magna Carta for learning disabled people ~ Kaliya Franklin and Gary Bourlet Pat's Petition: The emerging role of social media and the internet ~ Pat Onions and others Part VII: Breaking down barriers Section One: Inclusion and difference in the formulation and operation of social policy LGBT History Month is a thing! The story of an equal rights campaign ~ Sue Sanders Section Two: user-led approaches to social policy Transforming professional training and education - a gap mending approach: The PowerUs European partnership ~ Helen Casey Grassroots tackling policy: the making of the 'Spartacus Report' ~ Sam Barnett-Cormack Involvement for influence: developing the 4Pi Involvement Standards ~ Sarah Yiannoullou and Alison Faulkner Part VIII: Participatory research and evaluation From expert to service user: challenging how lived experience is demeaned ~ Michele Moore Participatory methodologies involving marginalised perspectives ~ Charlotte Williams Developing the evidence to challenge 'welfare reform': the road to 'Cash Not Care' ~ Mo Stewart Service user-controlled research for evidence-based policy making ~ Alison Faulkner Participatory citizenship, gender and human trafficking in Nepal ~ Diane Richardson, Nina Laurie, Meena Poudel, Shakti Samuha and Janet Townsend Experiential knowledge in mental health policy and legislation: can we ever change the agenda? ~ Jasna Russo Conclusion ~ Peter Beresford and Sarah Carr