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Housing and Independent Living
Mike Wright, Development Director
KeyRing Living Support Networks (UK)
21st April 2012
Introduction
KeyRing Article 19 and its application Where do we start? Where do we want to end up? What’s stopping us? Is there hope?!
Introduction
Article 19 of UN Disability Rights Convention
State Parties to this Convention recognise the equal right of persons with disabilities to live in the community with choices equal to others, and shall take effective and appropriate measures to facilitate full enjoyment by persons with disabilities of this right and their full inclusion and participation in the Community
UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living:
Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person
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UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living:
Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person
Asset or Deficit based thinkingIdentify
strengths
Facilitate their use
Pride, confidence, excitement
People build up networks
Workers become third
parties
Less dependence on services
Citizens not clients
Finances fluid
Services for more people
Asset or Deficit based thinkingHighlight
weakness
Compensate for them
Anxiety, lethargy,
pessimism
People belong to services
Workers at centre of lives
Increased dependence on services
Client not citizen
Finances locked up
Services for few people
UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living:
Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person
UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living:
Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person
Anatole France:
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”
UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living:
Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person
UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living:
Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person
Eleanor Roosevelt:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
George W Bush:
“We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop”
UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living:
Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person
UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living:
Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person
Who?
Black? White?
Who?
Male? Female?
Who?
Christian? Muslim?
Who?
‘Able bodied’? ‘Disabled’?
Who?
Young? Old?
Who?
Unknown? Famous?
Who?
Cleared? Convicted?
Who?
Entitled? Titled?
Who?
Who?
The lowest common
denominator?
The highest standard?
Is there hope?
Thank you
Mike Wright, Development Director
KeyRing Living Support Networks
www.keyring.org