‘I open my own front door’

This week we are focusing on how important having your own front door is to each of us. For many of us it means home, privacy, a place where we can be ourselves. Remember the time you picked up your front door key to your own home for the first time? The pride you felt?

For people we support, they can often miss out on this feeling. To try and counter that, this week we are supporting the Gloriously Ordinary Lives’ I open my own front door campaign.

Of course we should never go into anyone’s home without knocking or asking permission. And where possible we should do everything we can to enable someone to open their own front door. Having an element of choice and control over who you let in your own home is such a powerful thing and we want to enable people we support to embrace that feeling.

Check out Turran, who we support in Derby. He wanted to make this video about him opening his own front door. He is a DJ so I am pretty sure his background music “I’ve got the power” was a deliberate choice.

It is so important that Turran can say: “I’ve got the power” and for that to be true.

We know there are so many choices that can be taken away from people we support, and some become habit. It is our job to make sure we reinstate as many as possible and the front door seems like a great place to start.

Jan, Quality Manager, FitzRoy

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