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Welcome to Katie!

• Katie Bell (right) is the new skills trainer at Working with Words. Katie runs our training sessions at the Clockhouse Centre.
• You can email her at: katie@workingwithwords.org
• Find out more about the training we offer on our training page.

Working with Words' contact details

The Clockhouse Community Centre
Defiance Walk
Woolwich Dockyard
London SE18 5QL

Phone: 020 8855 6644
Email: info@workingwithwords.org
Web: www.workingwithwords.org

• View a Multimap to show the location of the Clockhouse Centre

Working with Words' Annual Report

This report tells you about recent developments at Working with Words:

• Our move to the Clockhouse Centre
• Our merger with mcch
• Our training
• Recent work making information accessible

Find out more

• Download a copy or our new Annual Report. (pdf, 2.12mb)
• To read our Newsletters, Annual Report and other Acrobat files on this web site, download the free Acrobat Reader from the Adobe web site.
• Contact us if you need a paper copy of the annual report.

Working with Words' Annual General Meeting

We held our AGM at CJ’s Café in November 2009. Thank you to the many people who attended.

Thank you too to our three speakers:

1. Debbie Robinson (right) - Valuing People London Regional Lead
   
2. Sean Daly - Charlton Athletic Football Development Manager
3. Gordon Boxall, Chief of Executive of mcch

• Download a copy of the agenda for the meeting (pdf, 321kb)

Working with Words and Photosymbols

We now use the excellent Photosymbols package in a lot of our our accessibility work.

"Photosymbols are a collection of pictures for making easy read information. They are designed to be placed alongside words to make information easier to understand. (...) Photosymbols can be mixed and matched to explain hundreds of different ideas in a visual way." (From the Photosymbols web site)

Find out more on the Photsymbols web site at www.photosymbols.co.uk

Wiltshire easy read web site

• We worked with Wiltshire County Council to set up an easy read site about what's happening to people and services in Wiltshire.
• The site is at: www.wiltshireeasyread.org.

New work page

• We have reorganised our work page into different categories so you will find it easier to see the range of information we have made accessible.
• Find out more on our work page
• You can also see a list of the people we have worked with on our customer page.

'Count us in' video is on this site

• Watch the video, see the photos of a good meeting and a bad meeting and read the booklet (pdf, 1414kb) on our Count us in page.
• You can also hear a good meeting (mp3, 2.68mb) or hear a bad meeting (mp3, 2.68mb).

Valuing People Now

• You can read the Government's plan for people with learning difficulties.
• It is called Valuing People Now, and you can download the easy to read version from the Department of Health web site (pdf, 1.16mb).

The Parenting Toolkit

• The Parenting Toolkit is the work of the London Network of Parents with Learning Difficulties, the Elfrida Society and the Valuing People Team
• The Toolkit helps local partnernership boards see how well they meet the needs of parents with learning difficulties
• Find out more at the Network web site at: www.londonparents.net
• You can download the Toolkit from this web site (pdf, 1.41mb).

Follow Working with Words at Twitter!

• We like to keep up to date with the latest ways of telling people all the new things happening here
• With that in mind, we thought it time to launch our Working with Words Twitter service
• Follow all the latest news in your browser or your mobile through Twitter tweets
• So, Twitter fans go to https://twitter.com/WorkingwithWord and click on the follow link to stay updated.

Greenwich Valuing People web site

• Find out more about services for people with learning difficulties on the Greenwich Valuing People web site at www.greenwichvaluingpeople.org.uk
• The site was set up when Greenwich Council Adult Services won Beacon Status for its work around Valuing People
• Working with Words designed this site with Greenwich Adult Services and produced a video about Greenwich's work. Find out more from our Beacon video page
• Find out about local organisations that offer services and support on the Moving On area of the web site at: www.greenwichvaluingpeople.org.uk/movingon

Working with Words slide show and galleries

See a slide show of images from Working with Words (You will need JavaScript turned on in your browser).

See our photo galleries:

• Training gallery 1
• Training gallery 2
• Training gallery 3

Getting rid of the Jargon

There is a story on the Local Government Association site called LGA urges the public sector to ditch jargon to help people during the recession. There is a list of 200 banned words which the Association says public bodies should avoid when talking to people about the services they provide.

“The public sector must not hide behind impenetrable jargon and phrases. Why do we have to have ‘coterminous, stakeholder engagement’ when we could just ‘talk to people’ instead?"

• The report lists some words as unacceptable: capacity building, cohesiveness, evidence based, holistic governance, multi-agency and Predictors of Beaconicity!
• The jargon list was featured on the One Show on BBC 1. Find out more on the BBC web site.
• Find out more on our jargon page
• Also, talking specifically about people with learning difficulties, Valuing People Now (2009), says "Organisations should make their information more accessible. They have to do this because of the Disability Discrimination Act"

Training at Working with Words

• Working with Words has places available for our training at the Clockhouse Centre.
• You can download a flier about our training (pdf, 1.37mb)
• Email us at info@workingwithwords.org to find out about training at Working with Words.

mcch connect web site

• Working with Words has helped develop the accessible mcch web site at www.mcchconnect.co.uk.
• The site has a message board designed by Echo computers.

Press releases

You can download our releases below:

• Working with Words' tenth Anniversary (Word document, 33kb)
• AGM and Lloyds TSB (Word document, 34kb)
• ECDL awards (Word document, 29kb)

 

Our recent contract work

• We are working with the Valuing People Team on their Newsletters for 2010
• We are working with Skills and Learning for London on their 'Learning for Living and Working in London' bulletin
• We are working with IDeA on two documents on Peer Reviews for Partnership Boards
• We are working with City of York Council on their equalities strategy
• We are designing a new, easy read guide to refuge collection and recycling for London Borough of Greenwich
• We designed an accessible summary on Rapid Transport for Belfast for the Department for Regional Development
• We have designed an easy read leaflet on waste and recycling for the London Borough of Greenwich
• We have produced an easy read version of the Getting a Life Project evaluation for the Valuing People Team
• We designed an easy read annual report for Wandsworth Care Alliance
• We are producing six accessible Influencing Toolkit documents for RADAR
• We are updating the London Borough of Greenwich Housing Options Pack
• We created an audio visual presentation for Metropolitan Home Ownership
• We produced an Easy read version of the 'Working for All: Work based learning options' for Skills & Learning for London Partnership
• We designed an accessible Equality Impact Assessment on the Northern Ireland Welfare Reform Bill for Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland
• We designed easy read access and Mobility information for Belfast City Centre Regeneration
• We designed an accessible version of 'Housing and Support for People with a Learning Disability' for Greenwich Neighbourhood Services
• We produced a support planning presentation for Greenwich Council Learning Disabilities Day Services
• We are working again with Greenwich Community Learning Disability Team on a leaflet about 'Hearing Voices'. This is a continuation of the series we produced on on 'Self Harm'. 'Bereavement' and 'Anger'
• We are producing an accessible web site for Bromley Council. We will deliver training to Bromley on updating the site
• We are working with Greenwich Adult Services on the Greenwich Learning Disabilities web site at www.greenwichvaluingpeople.org.uk and have developed an online version of the transition information called Moving on
• We are working on the minutes, agenda and other accessible information for the March 2010 Greenwich Learning Disability Partnership Board.

More information

• Find out more about our customers
• Find out more about our work

Off the shelf information

We can provide customers now with off the shelf easy information, in different formats.

Greenwich Learning Disability Partnership Board

The next meeting is on Friday 19th March 2010 at:

Woolwich Y
Antelope Road
Woolwich Dockyard
SE18 5QG

• See a map of the location for Woolwich 'Y'
• See documents for the meetings on our Partnership Board web page.

Greenwich Learning Disability Partnership Board

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