The document discusses the shift from the professional gift model of welfare to a citizenship model. The professional gift model organizes support around expertise and gives citizens low control over 40% of GDP spent on welfare. The citizenship model builds in citizen control, values community, rethinks professional roles, and redefines gifts as entitlements and contracts. It discusses concepts like self-directed support, tapered control, individual budgets and financial assets that empower citizens. Total Place and redesigning the welfare state are presented as ways to innovate, encourage stronger families and civil society, and improve the system based on what works.

1. Citizenship & Community
Talks for Norfolk: March 2010
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2. The Welfare State arose out of crisis
•War, revolution and eugenics
•Industrialisation and the end of older social
structures
•Economic uncertainty, depression, mass
poverty

4. ...but may be we can still learn
•Can the state plan everything on our behalf?
•How do we cope with further social change?
•Are there not injustices we still need to tackle?

5. The shift to the citizenship paradigm

6. Professional gift
model
•> 40% of GDP committed to welfare
•Government transfers much
responsibility for delivering welfare
to professions
•Professions organise support
around their expertise.
•Citizens have low levels of control,
weak entitlements and often face
perverse incentives

7. Citizenship model
•Build-in citizen
control
•Assume the value
and role of
community
•Rethink
professional roles
•Redefine gifts as
entitlements and
contracts

8. Citizenship is a social and political
concept

9. Self-Directed Support

10. Tapered Control

11. Individual Budgets

12. Financial Assets

13. Real Wealth

14. Coproduction

17. Creativity comes from constraints

18. Community-based support

19. Place Number 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%

22. Total Place
•Partnership to achieve
locally defined
outcomes
•Build on local assets
•Coproduce solutions
•Think beyond services
- people &
communities
•Create possibility of
innovation

28. Redesigning the Welfare State
•The system needs to be understandable and clear, we
need to know where we stand - our rights and our
duties
•The system needs to ensure people get what they
need in order to be full citizens - money, support etc.
•The system needs to encourage people to earn, learn,
save, love and build stronger families
•The system needs to encourage innovation, creativity
and stronger, more vibrant civil society
•Government needs to protect rights and learn what is
working and what can be improved.

29. Contact Details
Simon Duffy
Centre for Welfare Reform
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