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Ideas that shape adult guardianship: past, present and future

Ideas that shape adult guardianship: past, present and future. Barbara Carter OPA 25-year symposium 29 July 2011. Ideas that shape adult guardianship. Where there is no vision the people perish but happy is he who keeps the law. Proverbs 29:18. Humans are interdependent social beings.

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Ideas that shape adult guardianship: past, present and future

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  1. Ideas that shape adult guardianship: past, present and future Barbara Carter OPA 25-year symposium 29 July 2011

  2. Ideas that shape adult guardianship • Where there is no vision the people perish but happy is he who keeps the law. • Proverbs 29:18

  3. Humans are interdependent social beings Ideas that shape adult guardianship

  4. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Ethic of Reciprocity

  5. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Human flourishing • (gardening)

  6. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Rationality and autonomy

  7. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Universality

  8. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Personhood

  9. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Human dignity and human rights

  10. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Individuality and Individualism

  11. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Justice

  12. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Humans are interdependent social beings • Reciprocity • Human flourishing (gardening) • Rationality and autonomy • Universality • Personhood • Human dignity and human rights • Individuality and individualism • Justice

  13. My vision for guardianship • We have a fragmented system • Our guardianship system adds to fragmentation in the name of protecting people’s rights • A new system with advocates or Personal Ombudsmen available and accessible to people with disabilities • Overlap with case management • Additional authority decided upon by VCAT • Managed by and accountable to the Public Advocate with appeal provisions to VCAT • Independent of service provision

  14. Ideas thatshape adult guardianship • Where there is no vision the people perish but happy is he who keeps the law.

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