Slides from talks given to Anglesey Council on how to develop Citizen Directed Support locally and in Wales. Covering (1) problems in design of welfare state (2) history of innovations (3) key ideas and reforms (4) challenge of making changes work.
Talk given to leaders from Lancashire's Third Sector and Local Authority on the meaning of personalisation and the challenges for properly engaging civil society.
Being a true equal: citizenship, mental health & the welfare stateCitizen Network
Simon Duffy explores the value of citizenship in reforming the welfare state and improving mental health. This talk was given at the Viscerv Conference 2016 in Melbourne.
Realising the Potential of Consumer Directed CareCitizen Network
Simon Duffy ran this workshop for COTA Australia and Home Care Today to explore how best to build on the opportunities created by Consumer Directed Care as it is implemented in Aged Care.
Self-Directed Support - international best practiceCitizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk on behalf of Inclusion Ireland and DSA Ireland on the international lessons on self-directed support. The seminar offered a wide range of personal and academic support for progressing self-directed support in Ireland and advocacy groups continue to press Government to open up these options for people and families.
Slides from talks given to Anglesey Council on how to develop Citizen Directed Support locally and in Wales. Covering (1) problems in design of welfare state (2) history of innovations (3) key ideas and reforms (4) challenge of making changes work.
Talk given to leaders from Lancashire's Third Sector and Local Authority on the meaning of personalisation and the challenges for properly engaging civil society.
Being a true equal: citizenship, mental health & the welfare stateCitizen Network
Simon Duffy explores the value of citizenship in reforming the welfare state and improving mental health. This talk was given at the Viscerv Conference 2016 in Melbourne.
Realising the Potential of Consumer Directed CareCitizen Network
Simon Duffy ran this workshop for COTA Australia and Home Care Today to explore how best to build on the opportunities created by Consumer Directed Care as it is implemented in Aged Care.
Self-Directed Support - international best practiceCitizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk on behalf of Inclusion Ireland and DSA Ireland on the international lessons on self-directed support. The seminar offered a wide range of personal and academic support for progressing self-directed support in Ireland and advocacy groups continue to press Government to open up these options for people and families.
The Engage Programme NCB Northern Ireland - advocacy & lobbying workshopParticipation Works
As part of the ENGAGE programme, NCB Northern Ireland facilitated workshops on advocacy and lobbying for organisations funded under the Big Lottery’s Reaching Out Empowering Young People Programme (ROEYP).
Find out more:
http://www.participationworks.org.uk/northern-ireland
A lecture given to year 1 on a BA in Community and Social Care. It explains that the myriad of paperwork about safeguarding really boil down to 'tell someone who can act'
(166) launch of the centre (westminster, march 2011)Citizen Network
Slides from the Centre for Welfare Reform Westminster Launch on 24th March 2011- presentations from Simon Duffy, Pippa Murray, Clare Hyde, Craig Dearden-Phillips and Vidhya Alakeson
This is the full set of slides given to people, families, services and state officials in South Australia. It includes the hopes and fears of people with disabilities about the forthcoming implementation of NDIS.
Self-directed support (NDIS or My Way) has the potential to revolutionise support to people with disabilities. But service providers must also adapt, learn and innovate. These slides were shared at an event for over 90 service providers in Perth, WA - with the support of WADSC and NDS.
Presentation from Charlotte Bailey, Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, at the Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Workshop on 14th May 2019.
this ppt is based on problems faced by elderly in urban and rural areas and how to solve those problems, this ppt is for student who wants to do this ppt and can use this as reference
Presented on Monday 2 November at NCVO/BWB Trustee Conference 2015.
Afternoon keynote - Margaret Casely-Hayford, Chair, Action Aid
If you would like to find out more about our 2016 Trustee Conference email us at ncvoevents@ncvo.org.uk or call us on 020 750 3153.
This talk by Simon Duffy was given to an alliance of organisations seeking to advance the rights of people with learning disabilities in Finland. In this talk Simon gives a brief overview of the progress of people with learning disabilities to full citizenship and recent set backs. The talk ends by considering what kinds of responses are necessary to restore us to a more positive approach.
Fraglight: Shedding Light on Broken Pointcuts in Evolving Aspect-Oriented Sof...Raffi Khatchadourian
Pointcut fragility is a well-documented problem in Aspect-Oriented Programming; changes to the base-code can lead to join points in- correctly falling in or out of the scope of pointcuts. Deciding which pointcuts have broken due to base-code changes is a daunting venture, especially in large and complex systems. We demonstrate an automated tool called FRAGLIGHT that recommends a set of pointcuts that are likely to require modification due to a particular base-code change. The underlying approach is rooted in harnessing unique and arbitrarily deep structural commonality between program elements corresponding to join points selected by a pointcut in a particular software version. Patterns describing such commonality are used to recommend pointcuts that have potentially broken with a degree of confidence as the developer is typing. Our tool is implemented as an extension to the Mylyn Eclipse IDE plug-in, which maintains focused contexts of entities relevant to a task.
The Engage Programme NCB Northern Ireland - advocacy & lobbying workshopParticipation Works
As part of the ENGAGE programme, NCB Northern Ireland facilitated workshops on advocacy and lobbying for organisations funded under the Big Lottery’s Reaching Out Empowering Young People Programme (ROEYP).
Find out more:
http://www.participationworks.org.uk/northern-ireland
A lecture given to year 1 on a BA in Community and Social Care. It explains that the myriad of paperwork about safeguarding really boil down to 'tell someone who can act'
(166) launch of the centre (westminster, march 2011)Citizen Network
Slides from the Centre for Welfare Reform Westminster Launch on 24th March 2011- presentations from Simon Duffy, Pippa Murray, Clare Hyde, Craig Dearden-Phillips and Vidhya Alakeson
This is the full set of slides given to people, families, services and state officials in South Australia. It includes the hopes and fears of people with disabilities about the forthcoming implementation of NDIS.
Self-directed support (NDIS or My Way) has the potential to revolutionise support to people with disabilities. But service providers must also adapt, learn and innovate. These slides were shared at an event for over 90 service providers in Perth, WA - with the support of WADSC and NDS.
Presentation from Charlotte Bailey, Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, at the Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Workshop on 14th May 2019.
this ppt is based on problems faced by elderly in urban and rural areas and how to solve those problems, this ppt is for student who wants to do this ppt and can use this as reference
Presented on Monday 2 November at NCVO/BWB Trustee Conference 2015.
Afternoon keynote - Margaret Casely-Hayford, Chair, Action Aid
If you would like to find out more about our 2016 Trustee Conference email us at ncvoevents@ncvo.org.uk or call us on 020 750 3153.
This talk by Simon Duffy was given to an alliance of organisations seeking to advance the rights of people with learning disabilities in Finland. In this talk Simon gives a brief overview of the progress of people with learning disabilities to full citizenship and recent set backs. The talk ends by considering what kinds of responses are necessary to restore us to a more positive approach.
Fraglight: Shedding Light on Broken Pointcuts in Evolving Aspect-Oriented Sof...Raffi Khatchadourian
Pointcut fragility is a well-documented problem in Aspect-Oriented Programming; changes to the base-code can lead to join points in- correctly falling in or out of the scope of pointcuts. Deciding which pointcuts have broken due to base-code changes is a daunting venture, especially in large and complex systems. We demonstrate an automated tool called FRAGLIGHT that recommends a set of pointcuts that are likely to require modification due to a particular base-code change. The underlying approach is rooted in harnessing unique and arbitrarily deep structural commonality between program elements corresponding to join points selected by a pointcut in a particular software version. Patterns describing such commonality are used to recommend pointcuts that have potentially broken with a degree of confidence as the developer is typing. Our tool is implemented as an extension to the Mylyn Eclipse IDE plug-in, which maintains focused contexts of entities relevant to a task.
Pete Read has a background helping people to get the most from technology. After 20 years working in the corporate environment he started a small IT project that later became a successful business.
Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL) was delighted to welcome Pete to our 2013 Future Focus Conference. Pete's workshop focused on the way in which people use technology has changed and continues to evolve. He looked at the use of social media and marketing, on the world of Pay and Click marketing, and gave attendants a simple process to get started on social media.
While the 2013 Future Focus conference is now over, VAL runs trainings and workshops like Pete's year-round. If you'd like to learn more about training for your organisation, visit www.Valoneline.org.uk.
ICT e per la Gestione soccorso integrato nelle maxi emergenzePaolo Nesi
ICT e per la Gestione
Corso per il Master di I Livello, “ Il soccorso integrato nelle maxi emergenze: il management sanitario”, AA. 2012‐2013
Paolo Nesi, Ivan Bruno
Distributed and Internet Technology Lab, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’informazione
Paolo.nesi@unifi.it, Http://www.disit.dinfo.unifi.it
Parti: Le reti di calcolatori, Protocolli ed Internet, WEB, Architetture Client Server, Pagine HTML, Comunicazioni Wireless e protocolli, Reti WiFi e Cellulari, Esercitazioni varie, Comunicazioni in condizioni di emergenza, Sistemi di Comunicazione Satellitari, Sistemi Operativi per Sistemi Mobili, Sensori dei Sistemi Mobili, La proposta di Mobile Emergency
Who Put Out the Fire? The state of services for people with learning difficul...Citizen Network
This talk was given to commissioners of services for people with learning disabilities in Darlington by Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform. It argues that the people currently institutionalised in private hospitals are showing us that the whole community care system is unacceptable and that we need to start recognising that it is a system of ghettos.
Speaker session 3
• Speaker 3: Professor Suzanne Moffatt, Senior Lecturer in Social Gerontology, Newcastle University
Title ‘The impact of income maximisation on health: findings from the Do-Well Study’
Mental Health Reform: Personal Responsibility & Social JusticeCitizen Network
Talk given at the RCN's International Conference for Psychiatric Nursing on mental health reform. The talk describes the ethical challenge facing nurses as government policy both undermines mental health and avoids the need for meaningful reform. Can nurses work with people to bring about the necessary changes?
Elderly care conference 2017 - The state of social care: the commissioning la...Browne Jacobson LLP
Joy looks at 'what is social care in the 21st Century and why it is important?' including the current state of the social care market and taking a look at the future.
Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform explains how the bankruptcy of Northamptonshire County Council has been triggered by austerity, but was built on hyper-centralisation, privatisation and the failure of the commissioning model. He argues that its people need to head upstream to develop better social solutions and it needs more devolution of power and genuine democratic reform.
Dr Simon Duffy presented these slides to a meeting of the Socialist Health Association SHA) which was also joined by members of Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) on 18th June 2016. He proposed that the whole social care system was flawed and based on old-fashioned institutional models that were dangerous and undermined people's citizenship. He proposed radical reform and the creation of an effective right for independent living.
Talk by Dr Simon Duffy for AACQA on equal citizenship and aged care systems. Dr Duffy explores the meaning of citizenship and the problems inherent in support systems that are not focused on community inclusion.
Networked Energy: Energy independence for AlderneyCitizen Network
by Chris Cook and Marcus Saul, Island Power
As Research Fellows at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security, at University College, London, Marcus Saul and Chris Cook researched and developed the Pacific Natural Grid resource resilience strategy.
Here they explain how Denmark has led the way in creating sustainable networks of community-based energy production and distribution.
This has been transformative for Denmark, enabling it to become independent from the oil and gas industry’s dominance. But it is also transformative for communities, who are now creating their own energy economies.
Dr Dave Beck gave this talk for Part 5 of the ‘Grassroots Policies for Farming, Food and Wildlife’ webinar series, hosted by Citizen Network.
In his presentation Dr Beck discusses the harms caused by the monopolisation of supermarkets in the food industry. He also explores the positive possibilities of local currencies.
Dr Beck is a Lecturer at the University of Salford, Manchester.
The webinar recording is available to watch on Citizen Network's website at: www.citizen-network.org
Simon Duffy gave this presentation at the final conference of the UNIC Project, in Brussels in September 2023, providing an overview of personal budgets and the challenges ahead.
Sabrina Espeleta of War on Want outlines the enormous and growing level of world hunger. She explains how a few global corporations control the vast majority of food production and supply and markets exploit the food market, leaving communities, especially in the Global South at great disadvantage. Local peasant farmers are now organising to achieve food sovereignty, seeking to farm in ways in harmony with nature and to meet local needs. The Global North needs to respect the rights and autonomy of these people rather than to continue the pattern of exploitation.
This presentation was given on 6 July in Part 4 of a webinar series on grassroots policies for farming, food and wildlife.
Watch the recording at: https://citizen-network.org
Simon Duffy was asked by the Mayor’s Greater Manchester Charity and UBI Lab Manchester to talk at a recent roundtable event on the relevance of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to the problem of homelessness.
These are the slides from that talk. In summary Duffy argued that UBI is relevant to reducing homelessness in two slightly different ways:
1. UBI would help prevent homelessness - UBI addresses the inequalities in income and housing that create the risk of homelessness.
2. UBI would help people escape homelessness - UBI gives people a vital tool which significantly helps people change their situation in times of crisis.
Find more free resources on basic income at: www.citizen-network.org
A presentation for the One Yorkshire Committee introducing Democratic Yorkshire - a voluntary alliance consisting of a group of organisations and individuals interested in planning a better future for our County through modern democratic means secured in a written constitution.
In this presentation exploring planning law, Laird Ryan talks us through the planning process, explores what we can and can't influence and helps us consider how best to create real, organic and local alliances that make the best use of our energy.
To find out more about the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement please visit: https://neighbourhooddemocracy.org
Citizenship is our Business - The Avivo StoryCitizen Network
Avivo is one of the founding organisations in Citizen Network. they are also pioneers in self-direction and personalised support in Australia. Over the past few years they have been reorganising themselves around the principle that everyone is a citizen - and supporting everyone, including paid staff, to be citizens is their central purpose. Avivo are also leading Citizen Network's Rethinking Organisations programme and networking with other organisations on this journey.
Dr Simon Duffy spoke to Doncaster's Mental Wellbeing Alliance about the importance of thinking about what good help really means. He explored the importance of shifting power, resources and thinking upstream.
Markus Vähälä, CEO of Citizen Network, outlined the development of the cooperative as a framework to support the further development of Citizen Network as part of the 2022 Building Citizen network Together events hosted by Eberswalde University.
At BuildingCitizen Network Together in early 2022 Simon Duffy and James Lock discussed the development of Citizen Network and its current approach to membership and explored with members from all around the world next steps for its development.
These slides are from a talk Dr Simon Duffy of Citizen Network gave to Café Economique in Leeds, making the case for basic income. The argument set out is that UBI is one necessary part of a range of reforms necessary to support citizenship and strengthen community life. This talk preceded a (rather fiery) debate with Anna Coote of NEF who argued against UBI.
Simon Duffy gave this talk for Radical Visions on home, citizenship, institutionalisation and neighbourhood democracy. He explains why institutions are wrong and what we might be do to end the drive towards institutionalisation.
A presentation for the Estia International Confernce in 2021 from Dr Simon Duffy exploring personal budgets, citizenship and community and the challenges for services aiming to work in partnership with people with disabilities in Greece.
An example of good practice in inclusion in employment from Slovenia, shared at the Day Centres Without Walls conference, hosted by JDC in Lithuania. Day Centres Without Walls is an Erasmus+ project funded by the EU.
ys jagan mohan reddy political career, Biography.pdfVoterMood
Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, often referred to as Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was born on December 21, 1972, in Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh, to Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (popularly known as YSR), a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, and Y.S. Vijayamma.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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Navigating the Future of Fintech in India: Insights into how AI, blockchain, and digital payments are driving unprecedented growth in India's fintech industry, redefining financial services and accessibility.
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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2. There are two sides to
everything. If you grab the
blade, the best thing will do
you harm; the most
harmful will defend you if
you seize it by the hilt.
Baltasar Gracian
3. At its best
personalisation is a
ladder you can climb and
leave behind
At its worst
personalisation is a trap,
a confusion and a
distraction.
4. Key points
1.Long story - Independent Living
2.Some recent achievements
3.Emerging problems
4.Personalisation and the cuts
5.Understanding the next challenge
12. The Spectrum of Services
£200,000
£150,000
£100,000
£50,000
£0
Specialist Placements 24 Individual Support
Group Homes Specialist Day Services
Residential Colleges Nursing Homes
Residential Homes Individual Day Supports
Day Services Adult Placements
Outreach Supports Domicilary Care
Residential Respite
13. Numbers using services
400
320
240
160
80
0
Specialist Placements 24 Individual Support
Group Homes Specialist Day Services
Residential Colleges Nursing Homes
Residential Homes Individual Day Supports
Day Services Adult Placements
Outreach Supports Domicilary Care
Residential Respite
14. Expenditure
£15,000,000
£11,250,000
£7,500,000
£3,750,000
£0
Specialist Placements 24 Individual Support
Group Homes Specialist Day Services
Residential Colleges Nursing Homes
Residential Homes Individual Day Supports
Day Services Adult Placements
Outreach Supports Domicilary Care
Residential Respite
15. The balance
8%
92%
Segregated Services
Community Services
16. The system doesn’t make sense
It spends
people’s money
for them on
stuff they
wouldn’t buy
for themselves
17. 1972 first Centre for Independent Living
1980s first Direct Payments
1992 Supported Living
1996 Direct Payments Act
2003 In Control
2007 Putting People First
18. Government doesn’t lead - it follows
- and when government takes over
we often lose the plot
Change was not inspired by
government - it was inspired by
powerful ideas.
21. 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
22. A couple of weeks ago in Sheffield, I met a
wonderful woman called Katrina. She's got three
disabled sons. The oldest is Jonathan, a charming,
warm hearted young man of 19. He can't walk or
talk clearly, or feed himself alone. He's had a
breathing tube in his neck since he was a toddler....
Now he's doing work with a local charity, attending a
music group, has his own personal assistant...
Finally as a young man, engaged in life in a way he
and his mother never thought possible. Katrina told
me with the biggest smile I've ever seen, she said:
We've gone from having nothing to having
everything. I wish every child's needs would be
taken this seriously.
Nick Clegg, 17 September 2008.
26. Professional Gift Model Citizenship Model
Individual has deficits Individual has gifts
Doesn’t fit in community Community needs them
Needs professional help May need help to get in
Professionals are experts Individual is expert
Professionals take control Individual stays in control
INSTITUTION COMMUNITY
27. Professional Gift Model Citizenship Model
Individual has deficits Individual has gifts
Doesn’t fit in community Community needs them
Needs professional help May need help to get in
Professionals are experts Individual is expert
Professionals take control Individual stays in control
INSTITUTION COMMUNITY
28. Some recent achievements
1.Most funding is individualised
2.Reduced institutional provision
3.Some extra flexibility
4.More people in control
5.Some extra humility
29. Some real problems
1.Hidden services, hidden budgets
2.Increasing bureaucracy & control
3.Poor engagement with community
4.Growing inflexibility
5.Poor use of service providers
33. SDS Processes
Support Planning
RAS
Care Management
Protection/Safeguarding Responsibilities
Annual Reviews
Joint Assessment Processes
Eligibility Criteria & Resource Panels
Care Planning
Monitoring Systems
Comprehensive Assessments
Mental Capacity Law
Social Care Law for Children and Adults
39. Growing inflexibilities...
1. public money fallacy
2. just for services or PAs
3. just what’s in the ‘support plan’
4. what’s approved by panel
5. not for health, home, school etc...
6. separate accounts, audits etc.
48. • 58% of all cuts target disabled people
and people in poverty
• 36% of all cuts target disabled people
• 24% of all cuts target the 1.9% of the
population who need social care -
those with the most severe
impairments
49.
50. • Unfair - target those who are most
disadvantaged
• Unfair - make an unequal society
even more unequal
• Unfair - target the groups that didn’t
benefit from the economic bubble
51.
52.
53. 1.Human rights - not services
2.Clear entitlements - not confusion
3.Early support - not crisis
4.Equal access - not institutional care
5.Choice and control - not dependence
6.Fair incomes - not insecurity
7.Fair taxes - not targeted
8.Financial reform - sustainable
54. 1. Human rights
• Service systems should just be a
means to achieve fundamental rights
• UN Convention on Rights of Disabled
People as law in all parts of the UK
• Rights that can be backed by the
courts, includes
• A new constitutional foundation for
the welfare system
55. 2. Clear entitlements
• Control becomes real as resources are
truly ‘owned’ by disabled people
• Courts use ‘natural justice’ to define
entitlements
• What RAS does the government use?
• These changes will apply beyond
social care: health, education and
other areas...
56. 3. Early support
• FACS eligibility creates crises and
family breakdowns
• Crisis support is expensive and
institutional
• Having family support is counted
against you
• Families are disrespected and
undermined
57. 4. Equal access
• Money needs to move from institutional
services into the hands of disabled
people
• People need access to all the ordinary
opportunities available to citizens:
housing, education, work, leisure
58. 5. Choice and control
• People make the best decisions
• Current restrictions are burdensome
and confusing
• Individual or budgets are now being
corrupted
• Why is an entitlement ‘public money’?
59. 6. Fair incomes
• The poorest 10% of households have an
income of £6,500
• Of which 47% is paid in taxes - highest
rate of any decile
• The poor often face marginal tax rates
of 100%
• We live in the 3rd most unequal
developed country
60. 7. Fair taxes
• Charging is special tax levied only on
disabled people punishes people on low
incomes and benefits (up to 75%)
• It is expensive (up to 40%) to organise
and raises very little money (£2.3
billion)
• Public health and social care is >£130
billion. Private social care is £3.5 billion
(2.7%)
61. 8. Financial reform
• Economy is distorted by economic
measures of value and the need for
‘growth’
• Government controls 48% of GDP
• Debt is 492% of our economic output
• We need more discipline and flexibility
62. Key points
1.Independent Living not personalisation
2.Progress is real but momentum is slipping
3.System change has been superficial
4.Current cuts target disabled people
5.New challenges are becoming clearer
63. Questions
1.What form will new campaigns take
when so many are dependent on
the centre?
2.What does local leadership really
mean when local government is
under attack?
3.How can communities retake the
initiative?