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1 Speak Out Council Meeting 10 th December 2015 FACET Centre, Marwick Road, March Lessons for Life
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Speak Out
Council
Meeting
10th
December
2015
FACET Centre,
Marwick Road,
March
Lessons for
Life
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People who were at the meeting
Speak Out Leaders:
Michelle Mansfield – The Fens
Bill Jones – City and South
Sean Nightingale – East Cambs and Hunts (temporary)
Elspeth Jones – Speak Up Spectrum
Russell Henke – High Supports Needs
Neil Adams – Young People
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Other VoiceAbility Staff and Volunteers:
Bintou Joof – Social Work Student from Anglia Ruskin
University (currently on placement with VoiceAbility)
Ali Fawkes- Consultant for the Speak Out Online project.
Jessie Holder - Business Development Officer
Claire Mathieu – Young People’s Project Worker
Sue Reed - Project Manager for the Speak Out Online
Chris Reed - Photographer
James Sheard – Speak Out Coordinator
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Organisations who came:
Cambridgeshire County Council
Eddie’s Artworks
Meadowgate School
Red2green
Scope
Fenland District Council
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Richmond Fellowship
Spring Common School
Switch Now
Some of the people who said they could not come:
Stephen Barclay MP
Heidi Allen MP
Cllr Simon King.
Please email [email protected] for a full list of
apologies
Reporting Back
Michelle Mansfield led the leader’s news presentation. Each
leader told us what they had been doing in their area.
For a copy of the Leaders’ News please email
Speaking Out
Meadowgate School presentation
Jason introduced himself and the rest of the school council
Abbey, Curtis, Stephanie, Liam, Aiden, Mason and Kylie.
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They talked about what the school council does and how the
students are very proud of their outstanding Ofsted report.
Ofsted make sure that schools and teachers do a good job.
They visit schools, talk to pupils and parents and watch how
teachers do their lessons.
For a copy of the Meadowgate presentation please email
Eddie’s Day Service Presentation
Debs, who runs the project explained what Eddie’s Artwork
is. At the day service in March students do lots of creative
things, like painting and sewing.
Each of the students showed us a piece of work and
explained how much they like going to Eddie’s.
For a copy of the Eddie’s presentation please email
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Lessons for Life presentation
How to get the job you want – Elspeth Jones (Speak Out
Council leader) and Anna Tuck (Cambridgeshire County
Council)
Elspeth and Anna talked about the ways in which you could
get a job. They said it was important that:
1. The way employers thought about people with
disabilities.
2. The workplace is made easier for everyone to use
3. Application forms were made shorter and easier to
understand
4. You got the right support during interviews.
5. They suggested that it is important for employers to
know how to support you with your disability.
Nigel from Red2Green showed us a DVD on what employers
should know about people on the autistic spectrum. Please
email [email protected] if you would like to know more.
For a copy of Elspeth and Anna’s presentation please email
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Group work on how to get the right job
Question 1 – Why do people look forward to work?
1. Socialising
2. Be able to do something you are good at
3. Something you like to do
4. Knowing that you have done something well
5. Working with nice people
6. Get paid
7. Being in a place that helps us feel comfortable
8. To do something nice for someone else
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9. Work that makes us excited
10. Gives you a purpose
Question 2 - How can we make sure there are lots of
different jobs?
1. Talk to employers about, what roles they have and
what skills we need.
2. Talk with one another about what’s out there and
who can help?
3. Think about new ideas for jobs we could make
ourselves.
4. If we have a job, ask our employers if we can do
different things sometimes.
5. Don’t be afraid to try a new type of work.
6. Make sure we find out where jobs are and that we
can get there.
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7. Make sure advice from the government about jobs is
easy to read and has lots of choices.
8. Learn more of the skills we need to know for the jobs
we want.
9. Do not let people think a person with a learning
disability or autism cannot do a job.
10. Ask people want they want, in a way they
understand.
For a copy of the group work questions and answers please
email: [email protected]
Consultation Report – what we found out and how they
did it.
Russell and Bintou did a presentation about our consultation
Lessons for Life. Lessons for Life asked people about:
1. School and what they had learned.
2. Libraries and why they did or did not use them.
3. The jobs they had and what jobs they would like.
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They told us about how they had found out what people
thought. Russell pretended to take the survey to show
everyone what happens in a consultation.
For a copy of the presentation and consultation please email:
Lessons for Life Presentation.
Life Skills – Neil Adams (Speak Out Leader) and Joshua
Hang Gong (Cambridgeshire County Council)
Neil and Josh did a presentation on life skills.
Life skills are things you usually do every day like cooking,
cleaning, making your bed, reading and writing. It is really
good to know lots of life skills if:
You want to live on your own.
Or you want to live with as little help as possible.
They told us that County Council have made an Independent
Living passport for adults. This is for you to check which life
skills you know and which life skills you need to learn.
They told us that there are lots of other organisations where
people learn life skills:
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1. Places that have life skill lessons like FACET or
Red2Green.
2. Special needs schools like Meadowgate or Spring
Common.
You can also speak to people who give advice about jobs like
the Richmond Trust or the Papworth Trust.
For a copy of the presentation please email:
Group work questions on Job Skills.
Question 3 – What skills do we need to live on our own?
1. When to make choices yourself, when you need help and
where to go to ask.
2. Know about electricity, water and internet in our homes
and what to do if they go wrong.
3. Know about equipment like fridges or washing machines,
how to use them and what to do if they go wrong.
4. How to keep ourselves clean and stay healthy
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5. How to keep ourselves and our homes safe. What to do if
we don’t feel safe.
6. How to be safe outside and in the places we go to do work.
What to do if we don’t feel safe. Wgat
7. How to keep our money safe, plan what we should spend
and pay bills.
8. How to shop for what we need, cook meals and tidy away.
9. How to plan for and be safe on trips out and at activities.
10. How to count, read and write.
Question 4 – What are the top 5 life skills to learn at
school?
1. How to shop for what we need, cook meals and tidy away.
2. How to plan for and be safe on trips out and at activities.
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3. How to be safe where we live and in the places we go to
do work.
4. How to keep our money safe and plan what we should
spend.
5. Knowing about the internet and computers.
What are the top 5 Life Skills to learn after school?
1. When to make choices yourself, when you need help and
where to go to ask.
2. Knowing about electricity, water and internet in our homes
and what to do if they go wrong.
3. How to plan for and be safe on trips out and at activities.
4. How to keep our money safe, plan what we should spend
and pay bills.
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5. How to be safe where we live and in the places we go to
do work.
The Big Question– Should the Job Centre find people the
right job or any job?
The Job Centre is a place where people who are struggling
to find jobs visit and they support you in getting a job.
We decided by that the right job. We meant a job that
someone would be happy doing most of the time.
Here is what people thought?
22 people thought that the Job Centre should get you
the right job.
7 people thought that the Job Centre should you any
job.
15 out of 100 people were not sure.
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Action Points and Feedback
Action Points
Victoria Bartle – will some youth work with Claire and Sean
about Youth Work in Huntingdonshire.
Helen Bates – will support her daughter at meeting and
support her with university.
Catherine Fairholm – will work closely with VoiceAbility and
the Speak Out Council.
Lee MacManus- is going to support the work of the autism
consortium on employment
Jodie from Eddie’s Artwork gave us her details.
Feedback
Leaders report
9 out of 10 People found the leaders report interesting and
useful.
Speaking Out Meadowgate and Eddie Artwork
9 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
Consultation
8 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
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Jobs you want
9 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
Life Skills
8 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
Debate on Job Centre
9 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
Should we use FACET again?
Everybody said yes.
Overall feedback
84 out of 100 people thought that parts of the meeting were
interesting and useful
16 out of 100 people thought some parts of the meeting were
okay or they were not sure.
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These are the things some people said we could have
done better:
1. Have a bigger venue.
2. Have louder microphones and speakers.
3. Give people less far to travel.
4. Have soap in the toilets.
As a result we will:
1. Look at getting bigger venues or limiting the number of
guests.
2. Get new microphones or stereos or look at ways of making
them louder.
3. Make sure we travel all over Cambridgeshire, so travelling
times are fair for everyone.
4. Talk to venues to make sure they are well prepared for
guests.
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Many thanks to everyone who came to our meeting
If you have any questions or want more information please
contact James:
01223 555863
Neil Sean Bill Russell Elspeth Michelle
