In 2006, the United Nations agreed the Convention On the Rights Of Persons With Disabilities. Article 19, ‘Living independently and being included in the community’ sets out the ‘equal rights of all persons with disabilities to live in the community, with choices equal to others…’ A generation earlier, a small group of activists had come together at the invitation of the King's Fund—a major United Kingdom charity—to produce (in February 1980) the first pamphlet in an extensive series of contributions to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities. This became the An Ordinary Life initiative. I choose the generic word ‘initiative’. This was not a government policy change—in England we had to wait until 2001 for the White Paper Valuing People to catch up with progressive practice. It was not a project as usually understood, although it inspired many local projects across the country. Rather this first pamphlet became the common currency for the emergence of a social movement aspiring to end the institutionalisation of disabled people (in 1980 there were still more than 50,000 people with learning disabilities living their lives in British institutions and many more at risk of this when no longer able to rely on parental support) and ensure their right to live like others in the community.

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走向平凡的生活：来自英国社会转型故事的见解，1980-2001

2006年，联合国通过了《残疾人权利公约》。第 19 条“独立生活和融入社区”规定了“所有残疾人在社区生活的平等权利，有与他人平等的选择……”在一代人之前，一小群活动家聚集在应英国主要慈善机构 King's Fund 的邀请制作（1980 年 2 月）第一本小册子，为改善学习障碍者的生活做出一系列广泛贡献。这成为了An Ordinary Life倡议。我选择通用词“倡议”。这不是政府政策的改变——在英国，我们不得不等到 2001 年的白皮书重视人民赶上进步的实践。这不是一个通常理解的项目，尽管它激发了全国许多地方项目的灵感。相反，这第一本小册子成为了一场旨在结束残疾人制度化的社会运动的共同货币（在 1980 年，仍有 50,000 多名学习障碍者在英国机构生活，当更多的人面临这种​​风险时）不再能够依赖父母的支持）并确保他们像社区中的其他人一样生活的权利。