Re-Imagining Brokerage

Author: Liz Leach

The idea of brokerage seems simple - helping people to find their way through the often complex systems of disability support to a better life. However there has been a lot of confusion about what it should mean, who can do it and how it works. This important paper from the Chair of the National Brokerage Network provides a new starting point for brokerage:

• Not another industry - just a new way lots of people can be more creative
• Not a narrowly defined planning role - but working alongside people to make change happen
• Not provided by a special group - an activity many people can do in many ways

Brokerage is not the answer to every problem - but it is a better way of thinking about how we can be allies and help change to happen as people take control over their own lives.

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The publisher is the Centre for Welfare Reform.

Re-Imagining Brokerage © Liz Leach 2015.

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