Participatory Glasgow:
Leaving No-one Behind About GDA
• Founded and led by disabled people • 18 years, 5000+ members (individuals and organisations) • Community development for Social Change: - Social connections, confidence, collective voice - Tackling barriers to enable contributions - Supporting disabled people to drive forwards equality Participatory Glasgow
Participatory Budgeting: involving citizens in deciding how public money is spent.
Why so important for disabled people? - More reliant on public services - More affected by public spending decisions - More likely to want to get involved in decisions - More isolated, excluded by barriers and unmet needs (housing, transport, social care, poverty)
Cycle of Exclusion
Because of all the barriers, we can’t get involved to get our voices heard.
Because our voices are missing, the barriers don’t get tackled. Community of Interest PB Pilot - Supporting disabled people in 4 pilot wards to get involved in their local PB projects
- Building on involvement in mainstream decision making eg HSCP, transport, Accessible Glasgow, Housing, financial Inclusion Leaving No-one Behind: local area
Calton Ward: Child Poverty Canal Ward: Employability - Involve disabled parents / - Active local GDA members disabled children in anti- hit the ground running poverty strategies - Panel: Equalities focus I had an idea to help young groups We want to disabled people find work - but - Big Milton ‘Fun Day’: be valued I’d need GDA or the council to information and and apply and run the project connections recognised - ‘Be All you can Be’ day - ‘Together at Christmas’ Pollok Ward: Empowering young people - Lack of accessible facilities Pollokshields Ward: - Process barriers Reasonable Nothing accessible - Youth Access Fund adjustment made to and no info or accommodate support in my area People stay at home because disabled residents’ they can’t get out and end up application feeling depressed Moving Towards Mainstreaming If you had more say over the budget, what would you prioritise to improve things for disabled people? Access to: • Transport • Social Care • Jobs and learning • Streets, buildings, housing • Accessible Information • Attitudes & Awareness of disabled people’s rights • Tackling Isolation – peer support and connections • Social Care? • Mobility aids • Accessible housing • Education • Lifelong Learning • Social Security • Advocacy • City-wide Transport • Accessible info • Choice and Control in our own lives Health and Wellbeing 2018
Feeling valued as a 61% 16% member of your community? NHS GGC GDA members
Feeling in control of 72% 23% decisions that affect your daily life NHS GGC GDA members
Feeling Isolated 1 in 7 78% NHS GGC GDA members Belonging to your local area? Vs 76% 26% ‘I get the support I need NHS GGC GDA members to be included in my community’