The Vision Project

It means free and easily accessible legal services
to hold both employers and the government to
account – no ifs, no buts. It means understanding
people’s choices and opinions, and respecting
them. It means a rich bedrock of support services,
from early years to mental health to housing.
It also means money. Money changes things.
Money. No strings, no judgement, easily accessible
- money.
Within such a system, Kate takes control of her life
and moves on positively. She believes herself to
be funny and clever and with unlimited options,
because this is what she is told, in a hundred
different ways, every day. And also, because she is.
In 15 years of highly paid front-line work, nobody
I support has had their child removed from their
care because they are poor. Nobody has died of
exposure in the doorway of Marks and Spencer,
and nobody I work with has ever taken their own
life. It is a good system.
“A good benefits system is
fundamentally redistributive.
And what it redistributes
is value, making those at
the bottom as important as
those at the top.”
DEVELOPING HEALTH & INDEPENDENCE
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