Making life more accessible
Inspired Services news till Spring 2007.
Inspired Services regularly issues comment about social care.
These are just some of our recent news / media links and references.
EasyRead in other languages
We are now able to offer our easy read and accessible information in other languages. Please ask for details.
We have had a lot of people ringing us up asking where to get copies of the original Valuing People easy read papers we did for Government in 2001. Both Nothing About Us Without Us and the easy read White Paper.
They have been very popular and I know the DH did a reprint of these at one time, but are now refusing to print anymore! We ran out of our supplies a long time ago as well!
At a time when many people are questioning if Valuing People has had the impact it should have done, I thought we should try to make the papers a little more available and so we have dusted off the original files and put them on our web site.
The sound files on the easy read White Paper are quite large, please be patient while they download, especially if you do not have broadband.
Please click below to read them, hear them or print them off
Want to set up an independent self-
Find out how in the new Easy Read guide to ‘Taking Control’.
Click here for free ClipArt ....
It is our aim to make as much of the ClipArt people use in everyday life freely available.
We believe that if people use these pictures as a part of their language it should be a right to have free access to it! (Unfortunately we still need to convince funders that this is important as well.)
As a start we have published an online collection of clipart that we developed for
Government as a part of their e-
Adult social care services are facing cuts on a scale never before experienced. Having raised this issue under the campaign banner “Cuts Hurt” we are pleased to announce two new campaigns and a new coalition fighting the cuts.
Andrew Holman has been asked to write a Blog for Community Care Magazine on-
Valuing People with Learning Difficulties promoting employment, rights and health.
Richard West, Andrew Holman and Steph Moore ran workshops at this conference. ‘Who cares for carers with learning disabilities?’ raised an increasingly important issue as many people care for their older parents or their partners.
Andrew supported the Tower Hamlets Complaint Video Group to run a fun workshop around complaining. The group showed how the DVD could be used to talk about the issue and get the message across that it is a good thing to complain if something is wrong. The group want to make the DVD available nationally. Watch this space!
From the conference stage we were addressed by many familiar faces, from Helen Dorr
of the National Family Carers Network and Cally Ward of the Valuing people Support
Team (now part of CSIP), to Nicola Smith and Rob Greig, Co-
Andrew expressed concern about where Valuing People had got to and about accountability for the Cornwall abuse and the institution where it occurred. The answer given put the responsibility with those working in Cornwall. (see Blog)
Authorities need to show how they have involved disabled people in putting together their Disability Equality Scheme. But are you giving them the information they need to be involved in a meaningful way? Is it in the format they require?
We are currently helping various national and local authorities to produce accessible information for all aspects of the Disability Equality Scheme process – from consultation documents and event papers to the completed document.
At Inspired Services, our Making it Easier group (of people with learning difficulties) specialise in Easyread, but we can also provide information in Audio, Braille, Large Print, other languages, signed videos and data CD.
Whatever stage you are at, we can support you to provide information in a format which suits the needs of your local community.
An example:
CSCI consultation document-
People with learning disabilities as carers.
Carers with a learning disability are a forgotten, but growing, group of people.
