This document provides an overview of citizenship and the keys to achieving citizenship when living with a disability. It discusses how citizenship involves having purpose, freedom, financial security, appropriate support, a home, involvement in community life, and love. For many disabled people, these aspects of citizenship are lacking. The document introduces the concept of "Keys" - seven factors that are important for achieving citizenship when living with disabilities. These include purpose, freedom, money, help, home, life, and love. It argues that understanding and working on these keys can help improve the lives of disabled people by giving them greater confidence, inclusion, and well-being.

1. CITIZENSHIP - A GUIDE TO
PROVIDERS OF SUPPORT

2. Why listen to Sam Sly?
 I believe that Keys provides a fundamental
framework for achieving Citizenship
 Citizenship has underpinned the work I’ve done
as a Provider, with CQC & as a Commissioner
 I’ve helped Providers use Keys to improve the
lives of the people they support
 I’ve seen how understanding Citizenship has
helped people with learning disabilities grow in
confidence and get great lives
 I believe everyone has the right to Citizenship
and our job is to help make that happen

3. WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP?

4. ‘Without Citizenship you are
Stateless’
 Being an active part in Society
 How we make Society fairer and more
inclusive
 A democracy where people participate and
belong
 How we make Society work – together
 How we unite people
 A powerful status
 Its both Rights & Obligations

5. For most it’s automatic - when you
are born

6. If you have a disability it’s very
different!
 Life with no meaning
 Life with no purpose
 Seen as having no talents, gifts & skills
 Others control your life
 Living in poverty or trapped and dependent
 Living in places you don’t want to be
 No privacy, rights or belonging
 Controlled, segregated, abused and lonely
 A loveless life

7. What are the Keys?
 Purpose
 Freedom
 Money
 Help
 Home
 Life
 Love

8. A bit like finishing a jigsaw...
 It’s not about
achieving just one
Key. You have to
complete the whole
picture

9. SO WHY USE KEYS ?

10. Because Citizenship is what people tell
us they want!

11. They tell us they want……..
 To be happy
 To be in control of their lives
 To be able to speak up
 To be fulfilled
 To be part of a family & have a family
 To be part of their communities
 To have a place to call home
 To love & be loved
 A life that makes sense to them

12. So that is the Job!

13. Exercise
 7 groups
 1 scribe 1 person feedback
 Each group takes 1 Key
 Summarise the importance of the Key for the
other groups (15 minutes)
 To achieve that Key what could you do? And
how? (15 minutes)
 Each group feedback (15 minutes)

14. Key 1 – Purpose
Purpose means citizens having lives that are
meaningful and that have a sense of purpose.
Sometimes we find ourselves living a life
without meaning.

15. Key 2 – Freedom
Citizens are born free, but sometimes that
freedom is lost. People with disabilities,
especially people who don’t communicate
with words, often find that other people take
control of their lives.

16. Key 3 – Money
Citizens need money and at least enough
money to allow us to live with dignity and
security.Too many people, especially
disabled people find themselves living in
poverty.

17. Key 4 – Home
Citizens belong.They have their own place, a
home where they are safe and secure, in a
community that is right for them. Many
disabled people find themselves living with
their families too long, or are stuck in care
homes.

18. Key 5 – Help
Citizens need help. Everyone needs help.
Help is good. But many disabled people are
made to be too dependent on those who help
them.They get help at the price of freedom.
This is bad help.

19. Key 6 – Life
Citizenship is about making a difference. We
do this by getting involved and helping make
our community a better place. Many disabled
people are excluded from community life.

20. Key 7 – Love
The most important thing in the world is love.
Love exists even when citizenship is missing,
but true citizenship strengthens the force of
love in the world. Disabled people can love
and be loved just like everyone else. But
sometimes the world makes it harder.

22. My contact details
Sam Sly
Enough is Enough
Time4Change!
sam.sly@enoughisenough.org.uk
www.enoughisenough.org.uk
07900 424144