housing for people with learning disabilities - what's the problem
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Housing for People with Learning Disabilities
So, what’s the problemDr Simon Duffy Centre for Welfare Reform Disability Sheffield & Shelter Conference
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2 Esdras 2:20-23
“Do right by the widow. Respect the vulnerable.
Give to the poor. Protect children who’ve lost their family.
Ensure people maintain their dignity. Heal the poorly, help the weak. Don’t laugh at disabled people.
Defend the impaired. Don’t hide away the blind.
Don’t exclude anyone from your community. Respect the dead.”
From the Havamal - Sayings of the Vikings
“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.”
1 Corinthians 4:7
“Who made you different from anyone else? What have you got that was not given to you? And if you have any gifts why boast as if you
gave them to yourself?”
The factory system was rotten. It increased poverty
and inequality. It led to revolution, war and terror.
In Germany institutions were converted into the first death camps and about 200,000
people with disabilities were murdered.
The end of World War II led to important changes to try and protect human rights and establish decent
welfare systems.
There have been lots of changes in the last 70 years - some good, some bad. Today
we have an extreme Government that has made big cuts in basic rights to
housing, support and income.
The big institutions are now closed. Instead people are now with their
families or in group homes. Although some people live
independently and some live in village communities or other kinds
of shared living.
1. Everyone has the right to be a citizen - living a full life as part of the community
2. Everyone can have a home of their own - living with people they want to
3. We need to act positively and we need to act together
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