1. Ordinary Lives Citizenship for All A talk by Simon Duffy and Gary Bourlet at H&SA Conference, 21st November 2013

2. We know what we are aim at. But we’re not always sure how to talk about it. Ordinary lives is nice and simple - but is it also a bit boring or empty? Citizenship sounds good - but is it a bit too fancy or foreign?

3. what does citizenship mean? 1. Purpose - meaning 2. Freedom - control 3. Money - independence 4. Home - belonging 5. Help - involvement 6. Life - contribution 7. Love - connection can we make ordinary interesting?

4. No. 1 ourselves - personal change, courage and integrity No. 2 community - local control, diversity and innovation No. 3 politics - fairness, rights and democracy We’re not very far down the road big challenges ahead of us 3

5. 1.The UK is the third most unequal developed country 2.High rates of low paid employment 3.Consumption not contribution 4.Time for citizenship and family eroded citizenship has been lost 1

6. Are we living as citizens? 1. Purpose - Am I living a life of real purpose? 2. Freedom - Am I living with integrity - doing what’s right? 3. Money - Is money my servant or my master? 4. Home - Am I creating a home for myself and others? 5. Help - Do I let others lead, contribute and support me? 6. Life - Am I really listening to and helping others? 7. Love - Am I guided by love or by phoney goals? citizenship must be ordinary

7. Ordinary life is becoming all too ordinary. We don’t want to be employees; we don’t want to be service users; we don’t want to be customers. We are human beings, wonderfully diverse, and individual. And we are each others equals: worthy of respect and dignity. It’s not the time to be ordinary, it’s time to be extraordinary.

8. Pericles One's sense of honour is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out by age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

9. 1.The UK is the 2nd most centralised welfare state in the world 2.Controls little & little valued 3.Facing biggest cuts in funding & power 4.Forced into bureaucratic tendering and commissioning that erode communities our communities are under attack 2

10. The biggest percentage cut in funding was for English Local government.

11. 60% of real local government expenditure is for social care.

12. Central government creams funding from local government

13. community is where citizenship happens 1. Purpose - it’s where purposes find meaning 2. Freedom - it’s where we can be free 3. Money - it’s where real wealth is made 4. Home - it’s where we belong 5. Help - it’s where we are known and valued 6. Life - it’s where we can make a difference 7. Love - it’s where we can find love and give love is this ordinary?

14. Bigger is not more beautiful. We will only discover and nurture capacity at the level of community.

15. Wards40% Average Population1,700 Over 6537622.1% 15 and under30818.1% People seriously misusing drugs or alcohol140.8% People with limiting long-term illness38322.5% Children SEN statements70.4% People in homes in private ownership (incl. rental)1,36580.3% People in poor health18110.6% Deaths in a year201.2% Crimes885.2% ‘Looked After Children’20.1% People entitled to social care784.6% Working age people on benefits17710.4%

16. 1.The UK has more debt per person than any other country. 2.Politicians are using shame and stigma to win power. 3.Cuts have been targeted on the most disadvantaged. 4.Only swing voters matter. democracy is breaking down 3

17. The real cause of the crisis was a collapse in banks who had invested in an enormous unsustainable housing bubble.

18. We are seeing politicians pick on disabled people and use government officials to prime negative headlines.

19. The government has targeted cuts that fall hardest on those with the greatest needs - people with severe disabilities.

20. The cuts fall on people with disabilities and people in poverty far harder than they fall on any other groups.

21. What went wrong?

22. We fell asleep. We forgot that they don’t take care of us, we take care of each other. We forgot that it’s the rich who need the poor, not the poor who need the rich. We forgot that politicians work for us, we don’t work for them. We forgot that government doesn’t innovate, people do. We forgot that government doesn’t create wealth, people do. We forgot that government doesn’t know best, people do. We forgot about citizenship, we forgot about families, we forgot about community. We confused good with big. We confused achievement with wealth. We confused love with control. We forgot that the welfare state was made by us, that it belongs to us and it needs to work for us. It’s time to wake up.

23. It’s time to wake up

24. 1.Work together 2.Get political 3.Support advocacy 3 suggestions

25. For too long we’ve relied on government for leadership We’ve relied on government for funding We’ve relied on government for advocacy

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27. One national voice for people with learning disabilities An umbrella organisation to representing all self-advocacy groups, not just those called People First. Support to develop new local groups A way of becoming more self-sufficient, finding different sources of funding Capacity building support and advice. Run by and for people with learning disabilities. In a strong position to campaign

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