EQUALITY STATEMENT.
'Access All Areas Now!' has vision for a society where all people with learning disabilities are valued equally, listened to and included. This can only happen if people with learning disabilities are given chances and choices with the right support.
We believe vision and mission can only be achieved if we make full use of the talents and resources of people with learning disabilities. We want to be a diverse business and enable other businesses, services and organisations to do the same. Where individual differences are recognised and valued and where discriminatory attitudes and practices are challenged.
'At Access All Areas Now!' we believe that everyone should have equal chances in life, no matter what their ability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs or life experiences may be.
We want to make sure our services are there for everyone and that they are used by a wide range of businesses and organisations to enable them to give a more inclusive service to the local community.
We value difference and want to recruit a diverse workforce to increase the range of skills and talents in 'Access All Areas Now!' This will make us stronger as a business.
Testimony on behalf of Lisa Bayliss-Pratt, Principal Lecturer for practice and Innovation at the University of Wolverhampton.
I am writing to confirm that ' Access All Areas Now!' give a great learning resource in terms of helping people/future health and social care workers to understand some of the issues that surround learning disability and health and social care needs.
In December 2008, the team from ' Access All Areas Now!' spent three days at the School of Health. They gave a presentation on learning disability issues and worked with a number of health care students from different disciplines, their key roles were to act out particular health care conditions and scenarios to give students a chance to plan and where appropriate simulate their care.
The team were great, they followed all relevant instructions, were able to act out the play scenarios and quickly became a part of the team. The students and staff evaluated their work incredibly positively and we look forward to working with them in the future.
Testimony on behalf of Cliff Hawkins.
In my capacity as Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Wolverhampton City NHS PCT, working with adults with learning disabilities, I've had the privilege to work closely for the past three years or so with people aiming to set up ' Access All Areas Now!'
These people have shown great entrepreneurial ability in many ways. For eg; they have written, produced and performed plays getting across powerful messages to the general pubic about important to people with learning disabilities - such as good access to Health care. Also, they have been instrumental in working with Wolverhampton council set up a £150,000 project to re-launch Person-Centre planning in Wolverhampton.
Testimony on behalf of Veronica Jackson, Senior Lecturer for Learning Disabilities at the University of Wolverhampton.
Jess and Sara were part of a Self-advocacy group who speak up for people with learning disabilities. Jess and Sara participated in a role play demonstrating the difficulties of LD have in accessing primary care services. The play received by students and staff from all branches of nursing here at the University for Inter-professional week (health care professionals).
Jess and Sara demonstrated in presenting in front of a large group in the classroom and in the lecture theatre. I personally as a Senior Lecture would welcome them back to do further teaching sessions for our students here at University of Wolverhampton.
Behalf of Sara Gorman, Our Shout Mencap and 'Access All Areas Now!'
We would like to thank all people without disabilities who work with us for supporting in Our Shout and Access All Areas Now! Not only in our career would be possible without you all but we wouldn't of been able to run a business with your support. Our thanks goes out to Mencap, Employment Pathways and many more people who work for difference companies to support people with learning disabilities like us. I have been working in the field of learning disability for three years now. Before I started this work, I never had any joy accessing employment, apart from college and work placements I signed on for 13yrs.
Access All Areas Now! and Our Shout thank you all who have supported us with our work, we have really have enjoyed working with you and receiving your support to give us career we all have got today. All we ask for now is for Our Shout joins Access All Areas Now! if they all want to. Thanks to your training and support we feel positive enough to be more than a Self - Advocacy group in Our Shout but business men and women in 'Access All Areas' Now'! We would like to give other people with learning disabilities a chance to join a Self - Advocacy group like Our Shout or Our Shout, which will train others the same as we are today.
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