Our colleague David Towell led the work at the Kings Fund to produce ‘An Ordinary Life’ in the 1980s. This work has informed our work at Paradigm and still drives us! So glad a digital version of the book is now available!
David writes…
‘Revisiting ‘An Ordinary Life’. The King’s Fund is a long-established national organisation in the U.K. It is not exactly a voluntary organisation – it was established by Act of Parliament and its current President is the King. But despite the establishment credentials, it has used these assets to promote some radical change. Here the Fund reviews some of its contributions to disability equality.
The current organisation has used the title from the work I led in the 1980s and 1990s to headline this review.
This link includes access to the original (1980) pamphlet that fuelled a social movement to ensure people with intellectual disabilities have the opportunities and support to live like others in our communities.’