This research identifies the need for government to promote policies that demonstrate that they regard people with learning disabilities as fully human.

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This research identifies the need for government to promote policies that demonstrate that they regard people with learning disabilities as fully human and entitled to full citizenship. In order to create a ‘good’ Big Society for people with learning disabilities, social policy and practice must recognise the importance of networks of interdependence in developing a sense of independence in people’s lives. Key Policy Points: There is an urgent need to end the de-institutionalisation of people with learning disabilities; this can only be achieved through strengthening community networks. In a context of austerity, the potential of circles of support to enhance the community inclusion of people with learning disabilities is an untapped resource There is a need to focus on effective commissioning of support that promotes the independence of people with learning disabilities through a politics of interdependence. What should future government do to create a ‘good’ Big Society for people with learning disabilities? What should future governments have to do to create a ‘good’ Big Society for people with learning disabilities? Artwork by Robin Meader (for more information or visit June 2015

Background The community inclusion of people with learning disabilities is under threat. Post- Winterbourne view, 3,000+ disabled people remain incarcerated in institutions away from their families and communities and many more people with learning disabilities live in the community in supported living environments but experience little choice and control in the lives; Community exclusion poses threats to the health and well-being of people with learning disabilities; men with learning disabilities die thirteen years sooner than men in the general population and women with learning disabilities die twenty years sooner. Employment rates for people with learning disabilities remain stubbornly low - less than ten percent of people with learning disabilities in the UK are in paid work, and this figure has changed little over twenty years. Local authorities which commission supported employment providers are experiencing swinging cuts. Self-advocacy groups have a thirty-year history of promoting the rights of people with learning disabilities but their numbers are dwindling. The government states that it is committed to improving the life chances of disabled people. What should future governments have to do to create a ‘good’ Big Society for people with learning disabilities? What should government do to create a ‘good’ Big Society for people with learning disabilities?

Evidence This research identifies contemporary experiences of people with learning disabilities in Big Society in a time of austerity drawing on a series of interviews and ethnographic encounters conducted in the North West of England, The evidence presented here is based on fifty ethnographic encounters/interviews which were conducted with participants from a variety of different social classes and ethnic backgrounds. The research demonstrated that: Supportive networks are key to people with learning disabilities leading good lives; Access to support is limited; The number of circles of support remains small. People generally got information about how to set up a circle from other people with learning disabilities and/or family members. There is currently no requirement to focus on employment in the transition planning for young people with learning disabilities; if a young person goes into employment they lose their Education, Health and Care Plan; Employment is not included in personal budget planning for people with learning disabilities; Well trained job coaches provide effective support to move people with learning disabilities into employment and to support them in paid work; Supported internships have emerged as an effective strategy to move people into employment but their availability is patchy across the country; Fewer and fewer people are able to engage in self-advocacy, this is particularly the case for people with learning disabilities living in care homes or supported living arrangement; Analysis In employment, self-advocacy and community participation, people with learning disabilities do well when they are supported by effective networks. Post Winterbourne, there is an urgent need to end the de-institutionalisation of people with learning disabilities, yet this can only be achieved through strengthening community networks: including employment, self-advocacy and circles of support. The research suggests that, in a context of austerity, the potential of circles of support to enhance the community inclusion of people with learning disabilities is an untapped resource. There is a need to re-focus attention on the employment of people with learning disabilities. There is a need to strengthen employment as a strand within the transition review for young people with Special Educational Need and Disability (SEND) aged 14 with a requirement to engage with supported employment providers which continues at every subsequent review of the Education, Health and Care Plans (EHC); Commissioners must recognise that people with learning disabilities are differentially precarious in a time of austerity and, therefore, offer tenders for self-advocacy services in ways that do not exclude self-advocacy groups supporting people with learning disabilities. Commissioners must also recognise that as statutory services are cut, self-advocacy services are becoming the first line support for people who do not meet the thresholds for statutory support, without having been given any extra resources to match the increase in demand.

Conclusion The current period of austerity in Britain means that people with learning disabilities are experiencing increasingly precarious lives - this is evident in their access to paid work, advocacy and community participation. People with learning disabilities are still incarcerated in institutions and marginalised citizens. Services are haunted by the unspoken assumption that people with learning disabilities are not fully human and are not entitled to the same rights and living standards as other people. In order to counter the differentially precarious forces in their lives, there is an urgent need to challenge these assumptions and to focus on effective commissioning of support that promotes the independence of people with learning disabilities through a politics of interdependence. Research The research that underpins this paper is based on fifty ethnographic encounters/interviews which were conducted with participants from a variety of different socio-cultural backgrounds. About MetroPolis: MetroPolis exists to promote evidenced-informed policy based on MMU’s world-class research. Research Reference Big Society? Disabled people with learning disabilities and civil society. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Economic and Social Research Council. ES/K004883/1 (bigsocietydis.wordpress.com) Runswick-Cole, K., Goodley, D. and Bates, K. (under review) Precarious Lives: People with learning disabilities and employment” Scandinavian Journal of Disability Studies Goodley, D., Runswick-Cole, K. and Liddiard, K. (in press) The DisHuman Child in Discourse Special Issue: Fabulous Monsters: alternative discourses of childhood in education Runswick-Cole, K. and Goodley, D. (in press) Disability and Austerity: ‘Cruel Optimism’ in Big Society, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Runswick-Cole, K. and Goodley, D. (2015) DisPovertyPorn: Benefits Street and the Dis/ability Paradox, Disability & Society, Goodley, D., Lawthom, R, & Runswick- Cole, K. (2014). Posthuman disability studies. Subjectivity /Final_author_version_of_Goodley_ D._Lawthom_R._and_Runswick- Cole_K._in_press_._Posthuman_disability _studies._Subjectivity._ Goodley, D., Lawthom, R, & Runswick- Cole, K. (2014). Dis/ability and austerity: beyond work and slow death, Disability & Society, 29 (6), Goodley, D. and Runswick-Cole, K. (2014) Becoming dis/human: Thinking about the human through disability, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, DOI: / Big Society? Disabled people with learning disabilities and civil society is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Grant Ref: ES/K004883/1). It is a partnership project between four universities: Manchester Metropolitan University, The University of Sheffield, The University of Bristol and Northumbria University as well as civil society partners: Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities; Pathways Associates; Manchester Learning Disability Partnership; Mencap; SpeakUp Self-Advocacy and Pete Crane, Wendy Crane, Max Neill and Helen Smith, independent living advisors. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for funding this research (Grant Ref: ES/K004883/1). The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the ESRC. What should government do to create a ‘good’ Big Society for people with learning disabilities?