Slideshow from Simon Duffy's presentation to 2014 TQ21 Conference in Winchester, 16th October 2014. Talk explores the practical steps we can take to be better citizens and support each other to be citizens. It explores how service providers needs to change and become more flexible and creative.

1. Citizenship & Creative Support
Talk by Dr Simon Duffy of The Centre for Welfare Reform
on 16th October for TQ21

2. What I hope to do is…
• Show that the everyone can be a citizen
• Suggest some practical steps that service
providers can take to support citizenship
• Help you see yourselves as innovators who are
already making change happen
• Encourage you to challenge yourselves and
society to go further

3. A mixture of
• Philosophy
• Stories
• Innovations
• Data
• Poetry
• Pictures

5. What is the point of our
work?
If we are not helping each
other to be citizens what
are we doing?

6. What is citizenship ?

7. Citizenship can sound very
grand, but it’s a simple idea:
We’re all equal
We’re all different
& the best society is one
where we all work together to
respect and value everyone

8. Citizenship is also very
practical
Everyone can be a citizen
Everyone can contribute
& the best support
strengthens
citizenship for all

9. 1. Purpose
• Citizen’s have a sense of
purpose - a meaningful life
• People’s sense of meaning
has many sources
• We must listen and look for
meaning in the right places
• We each have purpose - we
just don’t always know it

11. 2. Freedom
• People have a right to be free
• But we need relationships with
others to be free
• We need to provide help with
information, communication
and good representation
• A man in a desert is not free -
he’s just alone

13. 3. Money
• People need the resources
necessary to be citizens
• The chance to earn and save
• Money for services is really
the person’s entitlement
• People only do things for us
for love or money - why not
have both?

15. 4. Home
• People need a home of their
own
• That means living with the
people we want to
• Safe, secure and private
• Going into a home - means
losing your home

17. 5. Help
• Citizens need help - its not
independence that build
community but dependence
• But help must be good help
• Supporters need to
understand what good help
demands
• If you need nobody you're no
use to anybody

19. 6. Life
• Life is made by living
• Work, play, volunteering and
having fun
• Life happens in community
• But it really matters that you
are in the right community for
you

21. 7. Love
• We all need love - life without
love is hell
• Love comes in many forms
• We need to understand how to
nurture and encourage love
• Love is what creates
citizenship and new citizens

23. ?
How do we support
citizenship

24. 1. Get good at listening for direction
2. Build relationships that liberate people
3. Get clear about entitlements
4. Respect and deepen roots
5. Be flexible - in the extreme
6. Get stuck into community
7. Look out for love

25. Nan & Direction

27. This is not
person centred planning

28. Help & Connect in Newcastle

29. Michael & Freedom

33. John-Paul & Money

37. Patrick & Home

39. Then the old Vainamoinen put this into words:!
“Strange food goes down the wrong way!
even in good lodging;!
in his land a man's better at home loftier.!
If only sweet God would grant!
the kind creator allow!
me to come to my own lands!
the lands where I used to live!!
Better in your own country!
even water off your sole!
than in a foreign country!
honey from a golden bowl.”!
!
From the Finnish epic poem: The Kalevala

40. Trevor & Help

42. Individualise Everything

43. Choice Support & Southwark
Council achieved over a 5 year
period a saving of 30% in the cost
cutting up the block contract into
personal budgets and treating each
person as an individual, using
technology and cutting central and
salary costs.

50. Doreen & Life

54. The lame rides a horse!
the maimed drives the herd!
the deaf is brave in battle.!
A man is better!
blind than buried.!
A dead man is deft at nothing.!
!
A Viking Poem from the Havamal

55. Margaret & Love

58. In order to create there
must be a dynamic force,
and what force is more
potent than love?!
!
Igor Stravinsky

59. 1. Get good at listening for direction
2. Build relationships that liberate
3. Get clear about entitlements
4. Respect and deepen roots
5. Be flexible - in the extreme
6. Get stuck into community
7. Look out for love

62. Some last thoughts…
• Believe in yourselves - it’s the only way
• Explore, connect - there’s lots of free information and
peer support available if you choose to use it
• Join Housing & Support Alliance and work with us on
Flexible Support Project
• Join LDA England

65. If we really believe in
citizenship & community…
how should we
work together?

66. What is stopping us
from doing our
very best?
And
what can we
do about it?

67. To find out more
www.centreforwelfarereform.org
To join
www.learningdisabilityalliance.org