support after winterbourne
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Talk describing the kind of support necessary to avoid institutionalisation and abuse.TRANSCRIPT
Personalised Support
the alternative to institutional care
Talk by Simon Duffy of The Centre for Welfare Reform for the Skills for Care Conference, 18th April, Taunton.
Self-Directed Support
Person Centred Planning
Personalisation
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Keys
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Inclusion
Community Connecting
Individual Service Funds
Home Ownership
“What did you think it was all
about?”
My Poem
I’m a woman who has talentThat they can’t take away.
They tried with drugs.And needles to dope me every day.
Institutions stink,They make you want to puke,
The doctors think they’re itAnd they’ll read you like a book.
I was kicked around and usedInsulted and abused;
They messed my mind right from the startTreated me like a dirty tart.
But it was them that did that,It was them that scarred my mind,
It was them that corrupted my innocence,And left me feeling that no one cared.
They shoved me in a hostelAs a guest of the Salvation Army,
With the company of drunks and punksIt was enough to send a poor lass barmy.
I wonder why it had to be that all my lifeNo one to love me
No one to careNo one to see
No one to listen properly.
So now my second life begun –A new chance to live life through my son;
A reason for living I have foundAnd it’s going to be better second time
round.
So now I tell youI’ve got a voice
I’ve got a right to make a choice.I’m not a toy for you to abuse
I’m a woman of spirit and now I’ll refuse…To take that abuse anymore.
Suzie Fothergill
Why is Winterbourne View not the exception
but the rule?
its an institution
1. It robs life of purpose
2. It takes away freedom
3. It keeps people poor
4. It makes people homeless
5. It corrupts need
6. It limits contribution
7. It disregards love
And the institution is still with us.
Institutions can belarge or small,far or near,cheap or costly...
...what they all have in common is they are systems
of control
Too often,Community Care is the Institution without the Park
Institutions don’t force people to do evil...
...they just make evil seem normal.
We are not condemned to
repeat this pattern
We can choose to support citizenship
1. Help people find their purpose
2. Let people be free
3. Ensure people have enough money
4. Find people real homes
5. Offer the right kind of help
6. Enable contribution to a full life
7. Protect and foster love
This is not rhetoric or ideology...
...it is commonsense
1. Citizenship is safe
Levels of Relative Risk
2. Citizenship is sustainable
In 1968 there were 65,000 people in institutions. In 2010 there were 11,000 in smaller private institutions at a typical cost of £160,000 per person. We are spending the same money on institutions - but for about one sixth of the people.
3. Citizenship is happiness
when people take back control
4. Citizenship is right
Honour can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it.
Ursula Le Guin
Profound changes in skills, supports,
services, and systems will be
required.
5 Basic Tasks of Support (O’Brien)
Individualised Service Design
Personalised Support
Self-Directed Support
We know what to do...
...are we ready to do it?
and can we do it at a time of crisis?
£72 billion of cuts
Most cuts fall in two areas:
To find out more
•How the cuts target disabled people
•What will happen in practice
•Why this is happening
download the report
www.centreforwelfarereform.org