A Vision for Inclusion

Reflections by Dr Simon Duffy founder of Inclusion Glasgow

at its 20th Birthday Conference: 20:20 Vision

A Visionfor Inclusion

• Institutions

• Segregation

• Exclusion

• Abuse

Inspiration can sometimes come from reacting against evil

Inclusion, before inclusion… there’s always more to the story

• Inspiration

• Experimentation

Imagining citizenship as another way to think about ‘services’

• Power

• Community

Putting the band together… everyone needs a bit of luck

Stumbling towards a model of personalised support

• Not ‘brokerage’

• Trust in people

• Trust in community

• Sticking with it

Shared management…

• You don’t need to do everything yourself

• It’s a partnership

Success and heartache

Trying to pass on what we’ve learned along the way

Growing, changing and splitting up

Coming back from time to time…

An interesting boring graph

• 20 Years - Neighbours Inc (USA)

• 20 Years - Quality Lifestyle Support (Australia)

• 23 Years - Pameijer, Gaandeweg (Netherlands)

• 24 Years - Durham (Canada)

• 25 Years - Spectrum (Canada)

• 25 Years - Community Living (Australia)

We are not alone…

• How can we rescue the welfare state from its enemies and from itself?

• How can we encourage citizenship and a more local welfare state?

• How can we restore community organisations to their proper role?

What I’m up to now

Times are tough

Westminster has imposed cruel cuts on disabled people and local government is under press to cut social care. But progress is real

Keep the faith…

10 years ago at Inclusion’s10th Anniversary Conference Nicola Sturgeon was depute leader of the SNP at Holyrood

Change can happen

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