Transcript ILF: THE BACKGROUND

SHEN Conference
27 March 2012
Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living
Employment and Housing Solutions
Kelly Coote & Karen Anne Doherty
What we will cover
• GCIL - Who we are and what we do
• Introduction to models of disability
• Barriers to housing
• Barriers to employment
• Interactive discussion
By the end of the workshop, you will:
• Know who GCIL are and what we do;
• Be aware of the different models of
disability;
• Understand the barriers disabled people
face in accessing employment and
accessible housing.
GCIL – who we are and what we do
• The largest user led organisation of
disabled people in Scotland
• Inclusive living service
• Payroll service
• Training service
• Accessible housing service
• Employment support and training
Principles of the independent living
movement
• That all human life is of value
• Everyone is capable of making
choices
• Right to assert control over their
own lives
• Disabled people have the right to
participate fully in society
INDIVIDUAL MODEL
Impairment = Disability
Special
Transport
Hospitals
O.T.’s
Benefits
Agency
M.E.
Spina Bifida
Multiple
Sclerosis
Dyslexia
Social
Work
Dept.
Person
Stroke
Day centres
A.I.D.S
Paraplegic
Hearing
impairment
Cerebral
Palsy
Arthritis
Learning difficulty
Mental illness
Visual impairment
Charities
Sheltered
housing
G.P.’s
Physio’s
Sheltered
employment
Special Schools
Responses in Society to a person’s medical
condition
Grant Carson - Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living (1999)
INDIVIDUAL MODEL
Impairment = Disability
Depersonalises
Segregates
Isolates
Person
(ill)
Static
Disempowers
Dehumanises
Grant Carson - Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living (1999)
SOCIAL MODEL
Barriers = Disability
Charities: Offensive
images of Disabled
People
Lack of
Access
Social
Myth’s
Fear / ignorance
Adapted housing
“Ghettoism”
Over-protective
families
Lack of employment
Lack of education
Isolation/
Segregation
Lack of financial
independence
Attitudes
Person
Language
Labelling
Lack of antidiscrimination
legislation
Prejudice
It is the Barriers present in society that really
disable people
Grant Carson - Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living (1999)
SOCIAL MODEL
Barriers = Disability
Suggests
solutions
Identifies
barriers
Person
Seeks allies
Grant Carson - Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living (1999)
Offers hope
Language
• Disabled people
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Non disabled people
Wheelchair user
Access requirements
People with ‘learning disabilities’
Blind person/visually impaired person
Deaf person/hearing impaired person
Housing – what are the barriers?
• Limited availability of accessible or
adapted housing
• Complex and fragmented service with
limited availability of expert advice and
advocacy
•Past investment in accessible/adapted
housing could be better recorded/managed
Housing – what are the
barriers...continued?
• Long delays for adaptations and support
• Shortage of funds for improvements and
support
• Lack of flexibility and choice
• Too little information on options and lack of
awareness of need
• Lack of opportunities to move between
areas – creating geographical ghettos
Housing – managing a scarce resource ?
GCIL gathered information from 80 landlords, covering
over 48,117 properties in & around Glasgow
Fully wheelchair 528
accessible
1.1%
Barrier free
1667
3.4%
Some
adaptations
2310
4.8%
Sheltered (inc
FW and BF)
2532
5.3%
Very sheltered
206
0.4%
No adaptations
40,874
85%
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Housing – solutions
• Supply – build more accessible housing
across tenures – example Glasgow city
council clause in city plan for 10 per cent of
accessible housing in 20 or more units.
• Housing management – be able to match
accessible housing to need. – Example:
Scottish Accessible Housing Register will be
rolled out, known as “Homes2Fit”
• Adaptations – need to be better resourced
and provided
Housing – what we do
• Provide support, information and advice to
disabled people and their families, and
agencies involved in housing or supporting
disabled people.
• Provide information on housing options
• Assist people to apply for social housing,
buy their own house, or make adaptations.
Housing – what we do continued...
• Signpost and refer people to suitable agencies
• Manage the Scottish Accessible Housing
Register, SAHR) known as Home2Fit.
Employment
GCIL – running successful employment
programmes for disabled people since 2001.
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Over 150 participants.
Transition into further employment 61 per cent.
Transition into further education 12.1 per cent.
Total positive outcome rate = 80.2 per cent.
Employment programme to date
• Has worked with over 500 people since 2001.
• Open Door programme – based on traditional
ILM model, but using supported permitted work to
support people in the transition to employment
• 10 per cent of applicants identified as
graduates.
• Professional Careers programme – supporting
disabled graduates into full time sustainable
careers.
Employment service in context
• 1 million disabled people in Scotland
• 20 per cent of working age population
• Disabled people are at least twice as likely to
be unemployed (some groups 4 times as likely).
• Disabled people are twice as likely to have no
qualification.
Barriers to Employment
• The benefits trap
• Stereotypes and false assumptions
• Lack of education and experience
• Inaccessible recruitment process
• Physical accessibility of premises.
• Getting to work and
• Inflexible working practice
Professional Careers and Open Door
“”positive action programmes designed to
address the under-representation and
inequalities of disabled people in employment”
Trainee benefits
• Salary
• Genuine work experience (50 weeks or 30 months)
• Access facilitation and support
• Ongoing reviews and structured mentoring
• Personal development
• Peer support
• Access to further or higher education
• Support into further employment
Benefits to employers
• Access to a pool of talented, motivated and
committed individuals
• Disability equality training
• Access audit
• Ongoing support from GCIL to minimise the impact
of the placement on employers resources
• Partnership working with GCIL
• The opportunity to address the under-representation
of disabled people in the workforce
Case study – Allan Barr 33
• Graduated from Glasgow University in 1998
• Never been in paid employment until joining GCIL.
• ‘lived in bedroom of parents house’
• Didn’t access services, recreation or employment.
• Now on Professional Careers, working with TPAS,
gained post grad diploma in Housing and working
towards MPhil.
• Has his own flat and care package.
• Uses access to work to fund his travel to & from work