'I'm a Person Too' Project
Greenwich Council is working with Rotherham Council and Wiltshire County Council on a project to improve people's skills in communicating with people with learning disabilities. There are 1.5 million people with learning disabilities in the UK who have daily contact with a wide range of public sector agencies which don't always provide clear information or accessible services.
We want to improve the life chances of people with learning disabilities who are misunderstood and socially excluded because organisations don't communicate well.
Working with Words is working with Greenwich Citizens Advocacy on the project and are providing training for the Police and people from the Housing Department. The Aim of the training is to develop staff's knowledge, skills and understanding of how to work more effectively with people with a learning disability.
It is hoped that by the end of the training session they will:
- Have a greater understanding of what a learning disability is and how it affects people.
- Understand more fully how your responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act link to your work with people with learning disabilities.
- Have increased your communication skills
- Be more aware of your personal responsibility to treat everyone equally
- Have gained some of the tools needed to assist you in your work with people with learning disabilities
We have also worked on the training pack to make the wording more accessible. You can find out more from the flyer from the project (pdf, 494kb).
Thanks too to Chris Judge for his work on this project.
