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Monthly Bulletin 34
Dear Members, Welcome to the March edition of ecdps monthly email bulletin. This has been an exceptionally busy month at ecdp, and we have been working on some exciting projects with our members. This week we held our second Fulfilling Potential focus group with young disabled people and people with learning disabilities. It was great to see so many people engaged with the work and offering practical solutions to tackling some of the barriers disabled people face in their lives. Hugh Pullinger, Deputy Director of Disability Strategy at DWP introduced the session and spent the day listening to the suggestions of participants. You can read more about the event and how you can contribute your lived experience to this important work on page 3. We welcome member contributions to the bulletin, our website and the ecdp magazine. If you would like to write something, or comment on any of the articles in this edition of the bulletin, please get in touch with us using the details below. If you have missed a previous email bulletin, they are all available on our website: ecdp monthly
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1. 2. Fulfilling Potential discussion Health and social care: effectively capturing your views and experiences Working with Skills for Care to give you the information you need as an employer
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4. 5. Job Opportunity at Terrence Higgins Trust A new animal in Essex: Dancing Giraffe
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6. Joint Committee publishes report on the human rights of disabled people Disability Rights UK launch hate crime
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email bulletin. Best wishes, Rich Watts Director of Policy and Development
guidance 8. Disability Law Service Training Courses 9. Disability Rights UK networking and empowerment events 10. New smartphone app based on Braille 11. Inclusion London A matter of survival
If you want to get in touch with us about any of the articles included in this bulletin: Telephone: 01245 392 300 Email: info@ecdp.org.uk Post: Ivan Peck House, 1 Russell Way, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3AA.
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Stephen Hodgkins produced a graphick representing the wide ranging discussion we had on the day, resulting in the fantastic image below. Remember, there is still time for you to share your lived experience through the ecdp Fulfilling Potential survey, which will close this Friday 2 March. If youd like any further information on the Fulfilling Potential work, please contact Faye Savage at ecdp: email fsavage@ecdp.co.uk or call 01245 214 023.
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Health and social care: effectively capturing your views and experiences
ecdp has recently been asked by Essex County Council to find out how to best capture your views and experiences of the health and social care systems. This is to ensure that your views and experiences are reflected in the way decisions about health and social care in Essex are taken. Over the coming months, we will be finding out what you think are the most practical and effective ways of capturing what people think, and how we can ensure that everyone has a chance for their voice to be heard. How we will do this work Very soon we will be using our website, our monthly email bulletin and our various social media (such as Twitter and Facebook) to let you know more about the work and how you can get involved. We will also keep you updated on the progress we are making so that you can let us know if were including the sorts of things you would expect us to. We will be hosting a range of focus groups through March, April and May, where we will bring people together to talk about how they would like to be involved in shaping health and social care. We will also have an online survey so that you can tell us your views at any time. Were very keen to ensure this work covers as many different groups of people across Essex. This means we will work with: People with learning disabilities People with long-term health conditions People with mental health conditions People with physical and/or sensory impairments Young people People from BME backgrounds LGBT people Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
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Our colleagues at Age UK (Essex) will also be working closely with us to ensure the views of older people in Essex are included. Contact us If youd like to ensure you receive information about the research work were doing, or if youd like to make sure your voice is heard, please contact: Rich Watts on rwatts@ecdp.co.uk or 01245 392 324. We will be able to pay people for their time and travel in being involved in this work. Our experience ecdp has a wide range of experience in capturing the views and lived experiences of disabled and older people in Essex. We do this in a variety of different ways, including varied communications techniques, focus groups, interviews and surveys. We have used this experience to do work on a number of different topics, such as: Disability benefit reform Access to Work Blue Badge reform Disability Hate Crime The personalisation of social care The Right to Control
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Working with Skills for Care to give you the information you need as an employer
ecdp is delighted to be working with Skills for Care to support disabled people in Essex and beyond who employ their own staff to access Skills for Cares useful and time-saving resources. Skills for Care wants to ensure that the people who work for disabled and older people in providing care often paid for by Direct Payments or Personal Budgets have the right skills and qualifications to do so. We know Direct Payments can be a very beneficial way of arranging your social care. But we also understand that it can sometimes take time to get the right information to feel fully in control. This is why ecdp is working with Skills for Care to ensure their useful information is made as available as possible to you. We also want to make sure you have the opportunity to let Skills for Care know how useful their resources are: what is good, what can be improved, and what new things you might like to see. How we will do this Over the next four months, well be telling you much more about the resources that Skills for Care have. We will be using our website (www.ecdp.org.uk), our monthly bulletin, our quarterly magazine and our social media (Twitter, Audioboo and YouTube) to keep you up-todate on the support available and how you can access it. We will also be holding three dedicated focus groups in March, April and May. This means youll have the chance in person to find out from Skills for Care about the work they do, and let them know how it could be improved. Were also keen to let you know about a very useful source of information that Skills for Care has developed: its called a Social
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Care Data Set, and what it can tell you is the types of skills you can expect to find for carers in Essex, what types of qualifications they might have, and all sorts of other useful information you might need to help you make a good decision when looking for your next carer / Personal Assistant. Keep in touch If youd like to ensure you receive information about the work were doing with Skills for Care, or if youd like to take part in the planned focus groups, please contact: Rich Watts on rwatts@ecdp.co.uk or 01245 392 324. We will be able to pay people for their time and travel in being involved in this work. You can find out more about Skills for Care and what they do here: http://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/ About ecdps payroll support service ecdp pass Our payroll service ecdp pass supports disabled and older people with employing Personal Assistants (PAs). ecdp pass provides a vital support system for people who want the independence that a Direct Payment / Personal Budget / cash payment can give them, but for whatever reason feel they need some support to do so. We have a personalised payroll service to meet users individual needs through offering as much of a tailored service as possible. This includes payment facilities, quarterly returns to Councils, staff recruitment and checking, and PA training. To find out more about ecdp pass please visit the ecdp website or contact them on 01245 392 320.
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For enquiries: email recruitment@tht.org.uk quoting the reference number EWE010.
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reference to our work on Disability Hate Crime over the last 18 months. You can read what the Joint Committee said about this work in paragraph 206 of their full report. You can also read about ecdps work on Disability Hate Crime on the ecdp website: Disability Hate Crime in Essex and beyond.
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ecdps work on disability hate crime is available on the ecdp website: Disability Hate Crime in Essex and Beyond.
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63 + VAT for half day/ 105 + VAT for full day (voluntary sector rates). Discounts are available for multiple bookings. All legal courses are accredited with the Solicitors Regulation Authority and attract CPD points. For additional information or to discuss DLS training, please call 020 7791 9819 or email: training@dls.org.uk
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The full report, including the implications of these findings for DDPOs, is available on Inclusion Londons website