Every Disabled Child Matters
I CAN urges all our supporters to sign up to support the Every Disabled Child Matters campaign (EDCM).
I CAN has been supporting EDCM since it launched in September 2006. Like EDCM, we want all disabled children and their families to have the right to the services and support they need to live ordinary lives.
28,000 people, including disabled children and young people, parents, professionals, disabled adults, and others working in the field, have already signed up to support the campaign. But the campaign needs this level of support to keep growing.
Campaigning by EDCM, its partners and individual supporters has already put enough pressure on government to release an additional £430million for services for disabled children and their families, alongside a programme of change that will start to transform lives.
We need even more people to sign up to EDCM, to keep the pressure on government to deliver and go further.
Please sign up using the form on the EDCM website now: http://www.edcm.org.uk and ask everyone you know to do the same. If you keep the box on the sign-up form ticked, EDCM will send you updates about what you can do to help make change happen.
The Communication Trust
The Trust aims to raise awareness of the importance of speech, language and communication across the children’s workforce and enable practitioners to access the best training and expertise to support all children’s communication needs.
Campaign for Learning
At Campaign for Learning we are working for a society in which everyone has the right to learn, everyone understands and values learning, and everyone has chances to learn throughout their lives.
Communication Forum Scotland
The Communication Forum Scotland (CFS) is an informal alliance of organisations with a primary interest in promoting and / or providing for the needs of people of any age who have communication support needs (CSN) in . It was established in 2005 and is currently comprised of 13 organisations.
Talk for Scotland
This useful resource has been produced by Communication Forum Scotland and is available free online at www.communicationforumscotland.org.uk
Talk for Scotland offers decision makers and service providers :
- the business, legal and equality reasons for engaging with people with communication support needs
- an explanation of the diversity of communication support needs in Scotland, with accompanying audio and written quotes
- Six Communication Support Principles to be followed in all public engagement activities
- practical advice to help put these principles into practice.
“The Equality and Human Rights Commission warmly welcomes the launch of the Talk for Scotland toolkit. We join you in urging policy makers at every level of government to take this seriously, and to use the toolkit to irmprove their ability to engage effectively with all groups in society. “(Ros Micklem, National Director Scotland, Equality and Human Rights Commission (Scotland)
I CAN, as a member of Communication Forum Scotland, is proud to be involved in promoting the use of this practical resource for engaging with people of all ages who have communication support needs. I CAN has produced guidance for the toolkit on engaging with children and young people who have communication support needs
Talk for Scotland is funded by the Scottish Government as part of the Civic Participation Network project. |