Simon Duffy explores what's being learned about self-directed support and what some of the key problems and developments need to be,

1. Exploring Progress on SDS
Dr Simon Duffy

2. • Dr Simon Duffy - Director of Citizen
Network Research (formally, the
Centre for Welfare Reform).
Developed: Keys to Citizenship, ISFs, 7
Steps of SDS, Personal Budgets, UBI+,
Inclusion Glasgow, In Control, UBI Lab
Network, Neighbourhood Democracy
Movement and Citizen Network Coop.
• Chris Watson - Founding Director of
Self-Directed Futures and leading
expert on commissioning for Self-
Directed Support and ISFs. Fellow of
Citizen Network and RSA and Board
member of global SDS Network

3. 56 years and counting
• Started in California in 1965
• Extends across USA, Canada,
Australia, NZ, Scotland, England,
Northern Europe, Germany and…
• Progress often comes in waves,
little learning between areas.
• Personal assistance models
often (but not always) come
fi
rst.
Global progress on SDS

4. Major recent progress
• Increasing focus on human rights
and UNCRPD
• Threat of competitive tendering
to community supports
• Effective advocacy by disability
organisations
• Wide scope of emerging reforms
Developments in EU

16. Treating people as citizens
1. Full access to the community
2. Support to achieve citizenship
3. In control of our own lives
4. Clear about any rules or systems
5. Free to use our own entitlements
6. Sharing what we are learning
7. Building stronger communities
Principles of SDS

17. Things to think about
Smart ways to rethink the social care role
1. Support people as citizens, not as service users
2. Focus on creating the conditions for innovation
3. Trust is the key to ef
fi
ciency
4. Capacity is only discovered at the community level

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