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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)
An incredible journey
- Author:
- SLY Sam
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(8), October 2010, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article considers the impact on support workers of the move from caring from people with learning disabilities in institutional settings to supporting them in the community, particularly highlighting the success stories. Workers transferring from institutional care settings may have a number of fears and hopes about the move, and these fears and hopes are discussed in the article. Their careers and livelihoods become inextricably entangled with the lives of the people they support, and the decisions being made often include changes to their job and working environment. What is expected of workers has changed. They are expected to support people to get a good life through building on the individual’s strengths and skills to make and sustain community connections. They are also expected to maximise the individual’s income, through state benefits or employment, so that the best opportunities are available to them. This is on top of any personal support that the person they support may require. This article discusses training and support to help support workers with the transfer to support in the community.