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Valuing people, not institutions
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 8(3), September 2005, pp.34-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the author's experience of two meetings. One, with a self-advocate-led organisation, was concerned with helping it expand and make use of its work a 3 key issues: advice on parenting skills for parents with learning disability, accessible information on health for people with learning disability, and training in the use of accessible information. The second was with a group of senior service managers seeking advice on how to reorganise and restructure their service organisations. The author discusses the 'professional gift model' and the 'citizenship model' which set of concerns and actions had the potential for the greatest impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities.
Valuing people, not institutions
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.30-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes the author's experience of two meetings. One, with a self-advocate-led organisation, was concerned with helping it expand and make use of its work a 3 key issues: advice on parenting skills for parents with learning disability, accessible information on health for people with learning disability, and training in the use of accessible information. The second was with a group of senior service managers seeking advice on how to reorganise and restructure their service organisations. Asks which set of concerns and actions had the potential for the greatest impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities.
Citizenship: a guide for providers of support
- Authors:
- SLY Sam, TINDALL Bob
- Publisher:
- Centre for Welfare Reform
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 48
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
This guide outlines the 7 keys to citizenship and explains how they can be used by service providers to improve the lives of people with disabilities and their families and can also build quality into services. It believes that these 7 keys can help people to take action on three levels: personal change; local change in communities; and political change. Sections look at each of the seven principles in turn, and outline how they can provide a framework for improving the lives of people with disabilities. The 7 keys to citizenship are: purpose – having goals, hopes and dreams and a structure for life and a plan to achieve this; freedom – having control and the ability to be heard; money – having enough money to live a good life and control over how that money is spent; home – having a place that belongs to us; help – having good help that enhances our gifts, talents and skills; life – making an active contribution to our communities; Love – having loving relationships. (Edited publisher abstract)
In control
- Author:
- DUFFY Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 80, Summer 2006, pp.9-13.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
In Control has been working to change the current system for social care into a system of self-directed support. This has led to great interest in its idea of Individual Budgets and how they can be used to help all disabled people to get control of their own support and achieve better lives for themselves. This article explains the concept of self-directed support and looks at In Control's model.
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.