Simon Duffy

Dr. Simon Duffy leads the independent research and development network, the Centre for Welfare Reform. The Centre works to radically redesign the current welfare system in order to promote citizenship, family and community. Simon is best known for his defining work on personalisation. In 1996 he created the first individual budgets in Glasgow, and in 2003 he tested this model when leading In Control. In 1999 he developed the model of Self-Directed Support which has now become central to adult social care policy in England.

In 2007 Simon was awarded the RSA’s Prince Albert Medal for his work in defining and developing the primary technologies of personalisation.

Simon has a doctorate in moral philosophy and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Health Service Management Centre.