in control first phase report 2003-2005

Project GroupA national Project Group met monthly to co-ordinate the development ofthe model through action in the pilot sites:Julie Casey, MencapSimon Duffy, in Control/ ParadigmKaren Flood, National Forum of People with Learning DifficultiesCarl Poll, know what i mean/ ParadigmMartin Routledge, VPSTHelen Sanderson, Helen Sanderson AssociatesJulie Stansfield, Val Bracken, NWTDTCaroline Tomlinson, Wigan and Leigh ScopeSteering Groupin Control needed to remain answerable to as wide a group of stakeholdersas possible in the course of this work and so formed a National SteeringGroup.in Control’s Steering Group included:Nicola Bailey, Redcar & Cleveland CouncilIan Berry, Department of HealthLeo Bishop, Essex County CouncilJoe Blott, Wigan CouncilDave Crook, South Gloucestershire CouncilSimon Duffy, in ControlDavid Ellis, Social Care Institute for ExcellenceKaren Flood, National Forum of People with Learning DifficultiesRob Greig, VPST, ChairFrances Hasler, Roy Web, National Centre for Independent LivingLindsay Lowes, Gateshead CouncilJim Mansell, Tizard CentreMartin Routledge, VPSTNeville Short, MencapAndrew Tyson, West Sussex CouncilThe need for a new systemin Control developed its system of Self-Directed Support as a way of supportingdisabled people to have real power and responsibility - a systembased on the principle that disabled people are citizens like other people.Such power and responsibility are conspicuously absent in the lives ofmany disabled people. The impact of this lack of control and participationwere described in the Government’s Improving the Life Chances of DisabledPeople. This important paper notes that disabled people are more A new system of social care