Slides from a day-long workshop with My Place - a leading personalised support organisation in Perth, WA. The workshop explores the meaning of inclusion and citizenship and the threats and opportunities that lie ahead of us.
Citizen Network Australia was formally launched in Perth, WA on 21st August 2017. These slides were presented by Leanne Pearman, Rosie Lawn and Simon Duffy.
Vicserv hosted an event on the true meaning of control and choice. Simon Duffy explores how control and choice should be seen as a part of building citizenship for all and moving way from institutional responses to need.
Consumers or Citizens, Families, and Communities in ControlCitizen Network
Simon Duffy gave this talk as part of the join PECCC community organisation hosted by Vicserv, COTA, Valid, Carers Australia Vic, FSSI, Health Issues Centre and VMIAC. This talk begins a programme to explore the true meaning of choice and control and an exploration of how different communities can work together to create better community solutions.
The global challenge of achieving citizenship for allCitizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy, at the Manawanui International Conference on self-direction, argues that we can work together to advance citizenship for all. He outlines the place that self-directed support has had in advancing citizenship, but also warns of the danger of consumerism. He explores the growing threats to citizenship from scapegoating and meritocracy. He launched an international membership cooperative - Citizen Network.
Citizenship & Self-Direction - exploring good practice.Citizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform gave this talk at the Manawanui In Charge International Conference on Self-Direction in Auckland November 2016. He explores some of the lessons learned internationally about how systems of self-directed support and set out the case for increasing international cooperation through membership of Citizen Network.
Dr Simon Duffy, of the Centre for Welfare Reform and Citizen Network gave this talk in Madison, Wisconsin on behalf of In Control Wisconsin. He explores the values, laws and social systems that support respect for ourselves as we age. He proposes that there are dark threats that require different levels of thinking and action - we need to get back to the foundational importance of love, family and community.
Citizen Network Australia was formally launched in Perth, WA on 21st August 2017. These slides were presented by Leanne Pearman, Rosie Lawn and Simon Duffy.
Vicserv hosted an event on the true meaning of control and choice. Simon Duffy explores how control and choice should be seen as a part of building citizenship for all and moving way from institutional responses to need.
Consumers or Citizens, Families, and Communities in ControlCitizen Network
Simon Duffy gave this talk as part of the join PECCC community organisation hosted by Vicserv, COTA, Valid, Carers Australia Vic, FSSI, Health Issues Centre and VMIAC. This talk begins a programme to explore the true meaning of choice and control and an exploration of how different communities can work together to create better community solutions.
The global challenge of achieving citizenship for allCitizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy, at the Manawanui International Conference on self-direction, argues that we can work together to advance citizenship for all. He outlines the place that self-directed support has had in advancing citizenship, but also warns of the danger of consumerism. He explores the growing threats to citizenship from scapegoating and meritocracy. He launched an international membership cooperative - Citizen Network.
Citizenship & Self-Direction - exploring good practice.Citizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform gave this talk at the Manawanui In Charge International Conference on Self-Direction in Auckland November 2016. He explores some of the lessons learned internationally about how systems of self-directed support and set out the case for increasing international cooperation through membership of Citizen Network.
Dr Simon Duffy, of the Centre for Welfare Reform and Citizen Network gave this talk in Madison, Wisconsin on behalf of In Control Wisconsin. He explores the values, laws and social systems that support respect for ourselves as we age. He proposes that there are dark threats that require different levels of thinking and action - we need to get back to the foundational importance of love, family and community.
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 explores the future of the welfare state. He argues that only a welfare state rooted in a commitment to citizenship is economically and politically sustainable.
Dr Simon Duffy explores how to fully fund adult social care in England. This presentation was hosted by the Yorkshire branch of the Socialist Health Association at an event to explore radical and progressive ideas to reform the broken social care system.
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.
Christianity and Social Justice: exploring the meaning of welfare reformCitizen Network
This presentation was given to the Archbishop of York and to bishops from the North East of England and Yorkshire. It explores the current crisis in the welfare state in the UK, the myths that dominate thinking and outlines the Christian case for some new and deeper thinking about the purpose and design of the welfare state.
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk in September 2018 to the National Social Care Conference in Cardiff. He argues that our concept of citizenship is confused, but the potential for creating communities of citizenship is enormous.
Research to Policy seminars - Intergenerational Relations in Challenging TimesILC- UK
Chaired by Clive Bolton, ILC-UK Advisor, this seminar presents a range of perspectives on intergenerational relations, seeking to stimulate a debate that is better grounded in and informed by the available evidence.
People with Disabilities and the Right to Community LivingCitizen Network
David Towell outlines three keys to citizenship and three pathways to positive change in the lives of people with learning disabilities and in our communities.
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.
Putting Fuel on the Fire - Advocacy in the NorthCitizen Network
Simon Duffy gave this talk at the North East and Cumbria Advocacy Conference on 30th March 2017 in Newcastle. He explores why citizenship matters and what are the challenges we face in the years ahead.
Simon Duffy explores how the concept of citizenship can provide a valuable framework for understanding the meaning of deinstitutionalisation, self-directed support and welfare reform.
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 explores the future of the welfare state. He argues that only a welfare state rooted in a commitment to citizenship is economically and politically sustainable.
Dr Simon Duffy explores how to fully fund adult social care in England. This presentation was hosted by the Yorkshire branch of the Socialist Health Association at an event to explore radical and progressive ideas to reform the broken social care system.
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.
Christianity and Social Justice: exploring the meaning of welfare reformCitizen Network
This presentation was given to the Archbishop of York and to bishops from the North East of England and Yorkshire. It explores the current crisis in the welfare state in the UK, the myths that dominate thinking and outlines the Christian case for some new and deeper thinking about the purpose and design of the welfare state.
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk in September 2018 to the National Social Care Conference in Cardiff. He argues that our concept of citizenship is confused, but the potential for creating communities of citizenship is enormous.
Research to Policy seminars - Intergenerational Relations in Challenging TimesILC- UK
Chaired by Clive Bolton, ILC-UK Advisor, this seminar presents a range of perspectives on intergenerational relations, seeking to stimulate a debate that is better grounded in and informed by the available evidence.
People with Disabilities and the Right to Community LivingCitizen Network
David Towell outlines three keys to citizenship and three pathways to positive change in the lives of people with learning disabilities and in our communities.
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.
Putting Fuel on the Fire - Advocacy in the NorthCitizen Network
Simon Duffy gave this talk at the North East and Cumbria Advocacy Conference on 30th March 2017 in Newcastle. He explores why citizenship matters and what are the challenges we face in the years ahead.
Simon Duffy explores how the concept of citizenship can provide a valuable framework for understanding the meaning of deinstitutionalisation, self-directed support and welfare 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.
Reconstructing the social determinants of healthCitizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform explores how we can reconstruct the social determinants of health and begin to address the real drivers of inequality and poor health. This talk was given to leaders of public health in Yorkshire.
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.
The Development of Self-Directed Support in FinlandCitizen Network
These slides were from a presentation by Dr Simon Duffy at the launch of Suunta - the new agency to promote self-directed support in Finland. Dr Duffy outlines some of the main strategies needed for successful implementation and the pitfalls to avoid.
Dr Simon Duffy explores the connection between the disintegration of the current welfare system and the attacks on the role of local government. The talk was given to councillors in Barnsley but is relevant to all in local government.
DD Network convened an important event in Madison, Wisconsin to explore the relationship between the learning from advocates of inclusion and the wider world of advocates for democracy and social justice. In this talk Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform argues that the experience of people with disabilities offers powerful lessons for the kind of social change we need and the limitations of working in narrow silos. He provides evidence of the extreme targeting of people with disabilities in the UK's austerity programme and the dangers of scapegoating and meritocracy. He proposes that we need to take the necessity of the welfare state much more seriously and integrate it into our thinking about constitutional reform.
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk at a City of Birmingham Think Tank event on 15th June 2016. This talk explores the reasons for the attacks on the welfare state and how the design of the welfare state could be changed to advance citizenship for all.
What is welfare state?
How it can change people’s lives? How government can prepare good facilities for people?
What are the field of welfare services?
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk to Directors of Public Health and other professionals in Birmingham in July 2016. He contends that there is no fundamental problem with the welfare state other than (a) we have abandoned concern for equality and (b) we have not designed a welfare state to effectively promote our own active citizenship. He sets out a series of possible changes to genuinely reform (rather than cut and undermine) the welfare state based on real community-based initiatives.
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.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
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Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdf
My Place in the World
1. My Place in the World
exploring the true meaning of inclusion & citizenship
2. • What does citizenship really mean?
• What can we learn from UK’s welfare reform process?
• What hope does NDIS offer for true citizenship?
• What is the role of a ‘service provider’?
• How do citizens become connected to community?
4. Wolf Wolfensberger on Social Role Valorisation (1998)
“The ideal service model i.e.
the one with the greatest model
coherency would be derived from
the real, primary, and urgent needs
of the people to be served, and all
of its process components would
match harmoniously with each other
and the content so as to facilitate
effective address of those needs”
Is this the right way to think about our purpose?
5. UN Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1 - All human beings are born free and equal in
dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and
conscience and should act towards one another in a
spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2 - Everyone is entitled to all the rights and
freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction
of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion, national or social
origin, property, birth or other status…
Article 3 - Everyone has the right to life, liberty and
security of person.
6.
7. The absence of freedom is the imposition of restraint on my
deliberation as to what I shall do, where I shall live, how much I
shall earn, the kinds of tasks I shall pursue. I am robbed of the
basic quality of humanness. When I cannot choose what I
shall do or where I shall live or how I shall survive, it
means in fact that some system has already made these
a priori decisions for me, and I am reduced to an animal.
I do not live; I merely exist. The only resemblances I have to
real life are the motor responses and function that are akin to
human-kind. I cannot adequately assume responsibility as a
person because I have been made party to a decision in which
I played no part in making.
Martin Luther King
Civil Rights, Citizenship and Freedom
13. How we discover our citizenship
1. Finding our sense of purpose
2. Having the freedom to pursue it
3. Having enough money to be free
4. Having a home where we belong
5. Getting help from other people
6. Making life in community
7. Finding, sharing and giving love
14.
15.
16.
17.
18. Citizenship means being equal and different.
Citizens are respected and valued for all their
differences. Everybody doesn’t need to be the
same.
We each make our own unique contribution to
community life. It is being members of our
community that makes us equal.
19. Citizenship is important because it means
being treated with respect and dignity.
Citizens are equal AND different.
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23. Citizens have rights, including the right to get
the help they need to be a citizen.
Citizens have duties, including the duty to help
others be a citizen.
Citizens are free. We live our own life, our own
way, but as part of a community.
24. What can we learn from UK’s welfare
reform process?
25. Welfare reform in the UK promised
• Simpler systems with better incentives to work
• More support for disabled people to find work
• Better targeted support for people with more
severe disabilities
26. In fact…
• Austerity is leading to severe cuts in disability
support and income security systems.
• Other policies, which are supposed to help people
into work have led to stigma, mental illness and
suicide.
• Policies of euthanasia and eugenics are becoming
increasingly accepted as inevitable.
27.
28.
29.
30. In total, across England as a
whole, the WCA disability
reassessment process during
this period was associated with
an additional 590 suicides
(95% CI 220 to 950), 279,000
additional cases of self-
reported mental health
problems (95% CI
57,000 to 500,000) and the
prescribing of an additional
725,000 antidepressant items
(95% CI 406 000 to 1 045 000).
Barr B, et al. J Epidemiol
Community Health 2015;0:1–7.
doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206209
31. The Committee is seriously concerned about the
disproportionate adverse impact that austerity measures,
introduced since 2010, are having on the enjoyment of
economic, social and cultural rights by disadvantaged and
marginalised individuals and groups. The Committee is
concerned that the State party has not undertaken a
comprehensive assessment of the cumulative impact of such
measures on the realisation of economic, social and cultural
rights, in a way that is recognised by civil society and national
independent monitoring mechanisms (art. 2, para. 1).
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
24 June 2016
UN declares UK Government fails to respect human rights
32. …there is reliable evidence that the threshold of grave or
systematic violations of the rights of persons with
disabilities has been met in the State party… The core
elements of the rights to independent living and being
included in the community, an adequate standard of living and
social protection and their right to employment have been
affected… freedom of choice and control over their daily
activities restricted, the extra cost of disability has been set
aside and income protection has been curtailed as a result of
benefit cuts, while the expected policy goal of achieving
decent and stable employment is far from being attained
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:
Inquiry concerning the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland carried out by the Committee under article 6 of
the Optional Protocol to the Convention
6th October 2016
UN declares UK Government fails to respect disability rights
33. It’s not just disabled people. Other people face
similar injustices
• Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers find
themselves directly excluded from citizenship
• People in poverty, people with chronic illnesses
and mental illness are increasingly stigmatised and
managed
• We can all become detached, disenchanted and or
excluded from community and political life
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39. The Scotsman reported on 3rd February 2012:
High-earning migrants and promising student
entrepreneurs will find it easier to work in Britain as the
coalition aims to ensure only “the right people are
coming here,” the Immigration Minister has
said. Damian Green, a Conservative MP, said middle
managers, unskilled labourers and benefit seekers
would be kept out as the coalition seeks only migrants
who “add to the quality of life in Britain.”
If only ‘those’ kind of people add to the quality of
life in Britain - what about the rest of us?
40. “Today we frankly recognise that
democracy can be no more than
an aspiration, and have rule not
so much by the people as by
the cleverest people; not an
aristocracy of birth, not a
plutocracy of wealth, but a true
meritocracy of talent.” [1958]
Yesterday’s satire feels
like today’s tragedy
41.
42. When people lose their way
Charities flourish and self-righteousness grows.
When we value cleverness and business acumen
We unleash hypocrisy and trickery.
When families fall apart
Family values are the order of the day.
As societies fall apart
They fill up with loyal patriots.
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
43.
44. Myth 1 Inequality is good for the economy
High inequality High inequality
Low inequality
45. Myth 2 Growth is good for everyone
In relative terms 80% of families are worse off than they would have been in 1977
46. Myth 3 The welfare state benefits the poorest
Comparing the impact of tax and benefit policy in 1977 to 2014 we can see
that the positive impact has been targeted almost entirely on middle-income
groups, not the poorest. Effectively government policy has been compensating
middle income groups for the relative decline in their incomes since 1977.
47.
48.
49. It seems likely that these factors are important
• Decline of trade unionism
• End of communist threat
• Progressive electoral focus on median earners
• Global economic development
• Increasing social atomism, decline of community
organisations, church etc.
• Technological and meritocratic assumptions
54. 1. A Federally controlled agency will deliver a care management service.
2. There is no overall budget for the agency to work within.
3. There is no significant strategic role for States, except perhaps as
service providers.
4. Budgets will be assigned by paid facilitators who will develop a plan
with the person with disabilities.
5. Funds will be released in accordance with that plan, either to citizens
or services.
6. The plan is the central control mechanism and people must work to
the plan. Their success at achieving any agreed outcomes will be
monitored.
7. All of this will be delivered through a new national computer system
and into which everybody must be linked.
8. This centralised system will be defined by detailed legislation.
55. 1. The current design does not reflect international or Australian learning about best practice in
individualised funding systems.
2. The resistance to acknowledging human rights and real entitlements will undermine both the quality
and sustainability of the model.
3. The resistance to accepting the reality of rationing will have the perverse consequence of promoting
the worst kinds of indirect rationing.
4. In principle, the concept of insurance could be very helpful, but it is not currently being used
effectively to guide the design of the NDIS.
5. The current design is in conflict with human rights and lacks any basic trust in the competency of
Australians with disabilities to make their own decisions.
6. The proposed model does not do enough to harness the efficiencies that come from shifting
responsibility to citizens and making resources flexible.
7. The model is hyper-centralised and risks eroding the responsibilities of States, communities, services
and families.
8. The current model is designed in a way which will create significant inflationary pressure and will
damage social capital at every level.
9. The proposed design involves an unnecessarily expensive and centralised bureaucratic infrastructure.
10.The current design is not innovative, but bureaucratic, and it leaves no room for social innovation at
any level.
56. 1. Create a sustainable system that supports active citizenship
2. Generate clear and meaningful entitlements
3. Ration resources intelligently and directly
4. Ensure citizens have the right responsibilities and incentives
5. Enable citizens to run their own lives
6. Allow the maximum flexibility in how resources are used
7. Increase local control within a national framework of rights
8. Avoid triggering inflationary demands from services
9. Minimise the cost of the system's infrastructure
10. Ensure that the system can continue to innovate and evolve
57.
58. Not, “I told you so;” but “so what?”
You fought for a federal bureaucratic
system and this is the inevitable result.
The challenge now is to make it work to
support innovation and citizenship.
This was always going to take work.
59.
60. We must beware
the drift of ideas
rooted in rights
and citizenship
into the emptiness
of consumerism
61. Origin of “Consumer” early 15c., "one who squanders or
wastes," agent noun from consume. In economic sense,
"one who uses up goods or articles" (opposite of
producer) from 1745.
68. Who are we?
• The era of eugenics and institutionalisation saw
organisations grow up around buildings and professional
identities in order to capture and control the lives of people
with disabilities.
• The post-war era led to family, disability, faith and
community groups organising to challenge and overturn
these patterns of control.
• Today an array of organisations now exists in complex
relationships of dependence with the welfare state:
professionals, service providers, advocacy organisations -
the service system.
69. Why are we?
• Institutions emerged from an era where charity had been
converted into purposeful social exclusion. Eugenics built on
prejudice to offer an end to unwanted differences.
• The horrors of the Holocaust, revolution and World War woke
people to the need for social rights and measures to fight
social injustice.
• Welfare states converted social rights into services,
commissioned, controlled and regulated by the state.
• Social services are now questioned and are being converted
into individual entitlements or marketised consumer options.
70. What next?
• Social role valorisation, normalisation and the search for
the ideal service don’t provide helpful frameworks for
future developments.
• The choice before us is either to allow the emergence of
commodified and controlled lives, combined with
consumer sensitive solutions.
• Or to build a capacity for people to become citizens: in
their own lives, in their obligations to other and in the
forms of social life we cherish.
71. Providers must…
• Stop being providers. There is nothing to provide.
• Start to be allies for people in their lives as citizens.
• Start to be networks to enable people to be better
citizens.
• Start to reclaim the service landscape for citizens: reclaim
community, undermine the market and take your place in
the movement to advance social justice for all
75. “There is a revolution going on.
We are beginning to realise that
everyone, every human being is
important. We are beginning to
see that every human being is
beautiful.
“At the heart of this revolution
are not the powerful, the wealthy
or intelligent. It is people with
disabilities who are showing us
what is important - love,
community and the freedom to
be ourselves.”
Jean Vanier
76. What’s our dream for those we love?
Money? Power? Fame?
or
a life of citizenship
freedom, meaning,
contribution
99. Prejudice against people with
disabilities is not so different from…
• Stigmatising the poor
• Exploiting workers
• Racism
• Ageism
• Sexual violence
• Colonialism
• Anti-semitism
• Sexism
• Homophobia
• Nationalism