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Keys to citizenship: a guide to getting good support services for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- DUFFY Simon
- Publisher:
- Paradigm
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 157p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birkenhead
A better way of thinking about the organisation of service delivery to people with learning difficulties is offered by the Citizenship Model of service delivery. This model assumes that the starting point for our thoughts must be the individual living as a member of their community. The role of both the provider and purchaser of services is to enable the individual to play a full part in the community and not to cut the individual off from their community. It has the following features: the individual is an active part of their community and is supported by that community; the purchaser and the provider are "off-stage" providing support or finance and at times leadership, but without disabling the community; there is a balance of power between the different legitimate interests of the individual, the purchaser and the provider; the individual negotiates with the purchaser and the provider to agree a fair level of resources and appropriate professional inputs; and the community provides the purchaser with the resources to enable it to give individuals the resources they are entitled to.