Other People we work for

Making life more accessible

Accessible Information

A few of our Satisfied Clients

2007

• Adept Transcription

• Audit Commission

• Cabinet Office

• Careers Wales

• Centro

• Community Care

• Crossrail

• Department for Constitutional Affairs

• Department for Communities and Local Government

• Derbyshire Constabulary

• Department for Education and Science DfES

• Essex County Council

• General Medical Council GMC

• General Social Care Council GSCC

• Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights

• K-International

• Lancashire Hospitals

• The Law Commission

• Lexis Nexis

• London Underground

• Norah Fry Research Centre

• Office for Disability Issues

• Houses of Parliament

• The Office of the Public Guardian

• Skills for Care

• Suffolk County Council

• Suffolk Constabulary

• Trans Media Link

• The Stationery Office

• Who Cares for Us?

A few of the comments we have recently received

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1. The Valuing People Clip Art Collection

2. Publishing and Easy Read Information

3. Support

4. Advice

5. Talks

"On behalf of People First Neath Port Talbot we want to thank you for the excellent clip art collections and service you have provided for us. This is why we have chosen to continue for another year and for future years."

People First Neath Port Talbot

"The Valuing People Clip Art Collection is the best disc of images we have come across to help us make our information accessible. They are clear, easy to use and best of all we keep getting new images sent to us. Anybody interested in raising the quality of accessible information needs this disc."

Sunderland People First

“The pictures from the Valuing Clip Art Collection are of good Quality"

"Colourful..."

"...A lot better than the images we used to use"

"It's great that we keep getting new images sent to us to build up our collection"

"The pictures are clear and make a lot of sense."

National Federation of Voluntary Bodies

“I love the clipart you use. It makes all your documents very accessible”

Conference notes. Community Care Oct 2007

“I think the documentation accompanying the conference is brilliant”

Consultation document "Thanks for the documents, they have been very popular in the office, everyone is very impressed!" and "Many thanks for your assistance through this process, it has been a pleasure to work with you."

Transport For London

Disability Equality Schemes

Easy Read version of Call for evidence for the Human Rights of Adults with Learning Difficulties inquiry. “I am pleased that the Easy Read call for evidence has been done in a way that is easy to understand and that the deadline for evidence was extended, as this is vital to people with learning difficulties being able to give their views.”

Andrew Lee People First

"Just a quick line to say thank you for all your hard work over the last few weeks. We all really appreciate your efforts and we are delighted with the finished product. Can you also say a big thank you to Emma, Katrina and Colin and let them know how much we enjoyed spending time with them."

Department for Education and Skills

Disability Act Plans "Thanks again for everyone's hard work in Inspired Services on this project. It turned out great."

Disability Equality Unit,

Department of Justice, Equality & Law Reform, Ireland

Glasgow City Council Equality Policy

“Great, many thanks for the excellent work. We are very impressed by your efficiency and turnaround times and look forward to working with you again.”

Glasgow City Council

UN Convention on the rights of Disabled People “Thank you so much for your sterling efforts and I saw from your text message that you had been working well into the night. I really did appreciate it and will certainly bear you in mind for future work.”

Accessible presentations for others

“Sincere thanks for your prompt and friendly help. I have no doubt that we will be speaking again in the future for new pieces of work we may require."

Involvement proposal "Wow, before the deadline too! Looks great"

Bristol University

The Easy Read Guide to the Equality Bill

"I was delighted to receive just a few minutes ago an 'Easyread' guide to the Equality Bill. I wish that more Bills were written in the same language so that we could understand them better." Lord Dholakia

"I am grateful to the noble Lord for having read the 'Easyread' guide, which I hope noble Lords will see filtering in over the next little while. It is a good example of government doing something important. I am very proud of it and commend the officials who produced it for us." Baroness Ashton of Upholland

Lords Hansard 6 July 2005

Conservative Party Manifesto "I would like to thank you all at Inspired Services for your swift turn around and excellent service in producing the Easyread version."

DEAC Report "I've just dipped into the report - it looks super."

Valuing People advisory committee, National Forum of people with learning difficulties and Who Cares for us?

“I think in all the work we do its fun because we can have a laugh as well as get on with the important stuff at the bottom of the list.

On the DH Valuing People advisory committee you managed to get people with learning disabilities for the first time working together on policy and law. This changed people’s lives for the better. This was the same when you supported us to set up the National Forum of people with learning difficulties.

Your work got people with learning disabilities to become national self advocates like me as a commissioner on the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) and Michelle as co chair of the Learning Disability task force.

With the ‘Who Cares for us?’ stuff I think the support is really fab! I’m not saying the support wasn’t fab in the other stuff you supported us in, it was, but this is different because people with learning disabilities are now becoming carers. This is a newer issue - we are all on the same side, changing peoples lives with a learning disabilities and to stand up and get their voices heard.”

Eve Rank, DRC Commissioner and self advocate.

“Andrew, Steph and Darren have been very good at supporting at different meetings and also sometimes when there's a problem at home.

For example, you supported me to get help from CSCI to tell social services how I feel about not getting the right service or help. About them seeing us as 2 different people and not thinking about myself and Tracey as a couple and I’m full time carer for Tracey.

You have been there for me when supporting me to say or write things down at meetings. Because I’m deaf I do need a sign language interpreter so I can understand some words but also you tell me in another way and make words and things easier for me.

Both myself and Eve are very happy for you to support us in our ‘Who Cares for us?’ project. As we're both carers with a learning disability we need some help to get our full rights and to be recognised as carers.”

Richard West, chair of the National Advisory Group on Learning Disabilities and Ethnicity. CSCI expert by experience.

"I am writing to thank you most sincerely for the important part that you played in the recruitment process for Walsingham Directors. The Board and I were sure we wanted and needed to get the views of service users but felt that it was important that they were helped to express their views by someone outside Walsingham so that it would be seen to be fair.

I know that you and our service users thought very carefully about how you should assess the candidates and how you should report back to trustees on your views. This is never an easy job – but it was very important. This really was a team effort and I was very grateful that you were able to support us in this way. Your experience, knowledge and expertise was a real asset in terms of us assessing each applicant and your comments were extremely helpful."

Paul Snell Chief Executive Walsingham

From 'If you ask me', Community Care 3 June 2004

Who has had the biggest influence on you?

“Andrew Holman at Community Living. In the day centre I wouldn't say boo to a goose but with his support I have been able to speak at international conferences!”

What event most changed your life?

“Becoming a self-advocate, getting a job.”

Joan Scott

"I am sure that others will be writing to thank you for all you did for us at the Annual Meeting, but I wanted to thank you personally. it is so good having people who you can ask to do a job and know they will deliver all that you want and more."

Mark Snell CE Walsingham 2004

"Hello Andrew and Eve, thank you so much for coming to do the talk on Monday, you have inspired the group who are really thinking deeply about what it means to run their own cafe."

Markfield Group, Haringey

"The TaskForce wanted us to write to thank you for the work you have done as a member of the Learning disability TaskForce Ethnicity Sub-Group … We are looking forward to hearing about the work of the group and to agreeing how the work is continued and mainstreamed."

Mary Ney and Michelle Chinery Learning Disability Taskforce Co-Chairs

"Your advice at the time was instrumental in pointing us in the right direction for a resolution of our difficulties."

Family Carer

Improving Lives for People with Learning Disabilities: A Life Like Any other

Conference feedback

Content 15/25 excellent 6 good

Delivery 15/22 excellent 6 good

“Excellent and Inspiring”

“An Interesting Speech”

Community Care October 2007

Valuing People - where do we go from here? 2005

Conference feedback included; "inspiring, makes me keep on going with reinvigorated passion", "informative, committed, motivating and relevant".

Community Care Live 2005

"You certainly inspired me! Thank you for your terrific presentation you, Richard and Tracey are wonderful. I work almost entirely with frail older people so for me it was a revelation."

Direct Payments Talks

"Many thanks for your talk at our conference on Direct Payments for people with learning difficulties. Your presentation placed the concerns of the conference into useful context, opening the way for lively discussions in our workshop sessions. We were delighted to welcome you to Kingston and hope that you found the day as fruitful as our participants did. Thank you very much indeed for your contribution."

Direct Payments Information Officer

"Thank you very much for being part of our Direct Payments Conference and for running a packed workshop! I know that your contribution attracted many people to the event, so thanks very much for being a big part of its success! I hope it will start people making Direct Payments happen rather than thinking of all the 'buts'"

Skills for People

Ethnicity Training Network Conference

"I am writing to thank you for your great contribution to the success of the conference. Thank you again for your valuable contributions. let me use this opportunity to say it is a great pleasure to work with you. I am looking forward to more future cooperation."

University of Leeds

Ethnicity Training Network Conference