Talk give on the interconnected topics of citizenship, work and self-directed support.

1. Citizenship & Work
Dr Simon Duffy ￭ The Centre for Welfare Reform ￭ Scotland
￭ July 2012 ￭

2. Dr Simon Duffy
• 22 years working on reforming welfare
systems, especially with people with learning
difficulties and their families
• Invented Individual Budgets, RAS, SDS and
Keys to Citizenship.
• Works to support innovations in the design of
the welfare state to promote citizenship,
family, community and fairness.

3. Centre for Welfare Reform
• The welfare state is a good thing,
• Its just designed wrong
• Based on 1945 thinking
• Needs to promote citizenship, family and
community
• Needs to be fairer

4. Key messages
1.The goal is citizenship
2.Citizenship is for all
3.Work is part of citizenship
4.Citizenship demands SDS
5.SDS helps folk to work

5. 1. The goal is citizenship

6. what are the alternatives?
• Death... extreme eugenics
• Exclusion... institutionalisation
• Care... undignified and minimal
• Improving... waiting for readiness

7. We must make a choice:
Either exclusion (in one or all
of its forms) or inclusion.
Either reduced status or
equal citizenship.

8. equality means: citizenship
Above all, I think the idea of
citizenship should remain at the centre
of modern political debates about
social and economic arrangements.
The concept of a citizen is that of a
person who can hold their head high
and participate fully and with dignity in
the life of their society.
Professor Jeremy Waldron

9. 2. Citizenship is for all

10. Citizenship is not about being
the same as other people.
Sameness kills citizenship.
Citizenship is living together
as equals - in all our
diversity.

11. Equality of Condition, though it is certainly a basic
requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the
greatest and most uncertain ventures... Whenever
equality becomes a mundane fact in itself, without any
gauge by which it can be measured or explained, then
there is one chance in a hundred that it will be
recognised simply as the working principle of a
political organisation in which otherwise unequal
people have equal rights; there are ninety-nine
chances that it will be mistaken for an innate quality
of every individual, who is “normal” if he is like
everybody else and “abnormal” if he happens to be
different. This perversion of equality from a political
into a social concept is all the more dangerous when a
society leaves but little space for special groups and
individuals, for then the differences become all the
more conspicuous.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

12. But what does citizenship
look like?
What are the keys to
citizenship?
How do we achieve
citizenship?

15. 3. Work is part of citizenship

17. We contribute
• By being ourselves
• Joining in community life
• Sharing our gifts
• Making things

18. Work is brilliant, because:
• We express our gifts, plus
• We help other people
• We earn money
• We make friends

19. Work is not the only way of
contributing
But it offers brilliant
opportunities
Opportunities everyone
should get a chance to enjoy

20. 4. Citizenship demands SDS

23. System spends
people’s money for
them on things
they wouldn’t buy
for themselves

24. Self-Directed Support

27. Place N Change
6 Sites Phase I Report 60 -18%
17 Sites Phase II Report 128 -9%
13 Sites IBSEN Report 203 -6%
Northants 17 -18.7%
City of London 10 -30%
Worcestershire 73 -17%

28. Not Direct Payments,
because
1. It’s about entitlements - not cash
2. It’s about the right point of control
3. It’s about supporting decisions
4. It is not about employing staff
5. It is for everyone

29. clear entitlements - up-front

30. different ways to control a budget

31. returning to the values of social work

32. personalised solutions

33. universal system

34. 5. SDS helps folk to work

35. The real innovators are
disabled people & their families
John O’Brien

36. Real Wealth

37. from push to pull economics

38. flexibility creates efficiency

40. Jonathan’s story
For the 3 years before 150 days in hospital -
responding to problems with breathing.
In the 3 years after leaving hospital he has spent
only 2 nights in hospital - for elective dental
treatments.
Personalised learning - on the job - 2 City & Guilds
Qualifications.
Saving NHS, LA & Education
•Over £100,000 in hospital stays
•Over £300,000 in residential care costs
•Over £100,000 of funding contributed by the LSC

42. Making work natural...
1. Paying a supported employment provider
2. Employing a job coach
3. PA can be a job coach
4. Building it into school curriculum
5. Family-led jobs
6. Supporting Project SEARCH
7. Micro-enterprises or more
8. Self-employment
9. Adaptations with employers

43. communities are not products

44. Strategic leadership is still
required.
SDS must support not block
work as an option.
Community provides the
solutions we need.

45. A rabbi asked his students how they
could tell when the dawn had come and
morning prayers could be said. One
student responded by saying, “When
you can see the sheep on the hill.”
Another suggested that one can tell
that the dawn has come when a person
is able to distinguish between a fig tree
and a grapevine. “No,” said the wise
one. “It is dawn when you can look into
the faces of human beings and you
have enough light within you to
recognize them as your sisters and
brothers.”

46. For more information go to
www.centreforwelfarereform.org
These slides are © Simon Duffy 2012 ￭ Publisher is The
Centre for Welfare Reform ￭ Slides can be distributed subject
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