As well as working alongside people as a support worker at a grassroots level, in community based supported living projects, Chris has also worked at a strategic level in a local authority and on programmes delivering national priorities around helping people move out of institutionalised living environments and into their own homes.
It was within services that Chris started to realise that for people to have good lives they needed approaches to support that were designed around them as unique individuals, and that flexibility, in every area, was key to this. And so, he decided to set up Self Directed Futures, an organisation that is based around inspiring and supporting organisations to apply the principles of self determination, citizenship and self directed support.
Chris is a Fellow of Citizen Network, and a Fellow at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
