{"id":3762,"date":"2014-08-29T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2019-04-26T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:23:39","slug":"lets-help-disabled-people-fulfill-their-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/lets-help-disabled-people-fulfill-their-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s help disabled people fulfill their potential"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If there\u2019s one thing that we believe in more than anything else, it\u2019s the power of people. That\u2019s why at the core of us there\u2019s so much passion and determination to unlock people\u2019s potential, the potential that\u2019s wasted by the right\u2019s politics of \u201cyou\u2019re on your own.” And it\u2019s potential that\u2019s wasted by social security that fails to empower disabled people and their carers and, instead, traps them in poverty. That\u2019s not something we\u2019re prepared to stand and watch. That\u2019s something we want to change.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Australia, someone is registered as disabled every half an hour. In Britain, it\u2019s every three minutes. In both Australia and Britain, one in five adults has a\u00a0disability\u00a0of some kind. That means that unless we give all disabled adults the chance to contribute, we\u2019re only drawing on 80 percent of our power. We\u2019re only firing on four out of five cylinders. That simply can\u2019t be right.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not right morally and it\u2019s not good economically. The result is bad for the country \u2013 and it\u2019s bad for disabled people. We believe in something simple: because disability can affect anyone, it affects everyone. That is why social security has got to change so that we make the right to live as full citizens in a free society a reality for disabled people.<\/p>\n

In Australia, the Labor government laid the foundations for a revolution in services for thousands of disabled people, their families and carers. DisabilityCare Australia\u00a0will mean that Australians with significant and permanent disabilities will have more power to choose their support and more control over how that support is provided. The program, gradually being rolled out across the country, is creating personal plans that put the goals and aspirations of individuals at the center of the support they will receive.<\/p>\n

The scheme will also give Australians peace of mind that their child or loved one will get the care and support they need in the event that they have a significant and permanent disability.<\/p>\n

We think that Britain has a lot to learn from Australian Labor, so we\u2019ll work together to study how the ground-breaking ideas pioneered by Labor can help make a difference in Britain.<\/p>\n

Currently, in Britain, we support disabled people by putting them in the middle of a labyrinth and telling them to find their way out. There are assessments for social care. There are assessments for personal independence payment. There are assessments such as the\u00a0work capability assessment.<\/p>\n

Of course, we need assessments \u2013 but at the moment, hundreds of thousands of the assessments are wrong. Years are wasted in court, where eventually 40 percent of appeals around employment and support assessments are won.<\/p>\n

It is a monumental waste of money \u2013 \u00a374m, according to evidence provided to the public accounts committee by\u00a0Disability Rights UK. We spend \u00a3900m on\u00a0Atos. We\u2019re about to spend \u00a3540m on Atos and Capita.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to end the labyrinth. We\u2019ll be looking at how we take the radical ideas of \u201cwhole person care\u201d, developed by\u00a0Andy Burnham, to bring services and benefits together to support disabled people in a new way. And we\u2019re delighted that in Britain, Sir Bert Massie, a great pioneer of disability rights, will be working alongside us to make sure ideas are co-produced with disabled people every step of the way.<\/p>\n

Labour\u00a0will be publishing a green paper on the idea next summer. It\u2019ll be far stronger for the advice from Down Under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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