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Welcome to our new Member Organisation joining this month:
Mansfield and North Notts Society for Deaf People provides information, meeting facilities and support services for D/deaf people, their families and associates. A campaigning element is integral to their aims and objectives. Contact Ann Buck, Mansfield and North Notts Society for Deaf People, 1 Wood Street, Mansfield, Notts, NG18 1QB.
Email: wehear@northnottsdeafsociety.org.uk
Website: www.northnottsdeafsociety.org.uk
Welcome to our new Affiliate Organisations joining this month:
Full contact details can be found in the Directory of Affiliated Organisations at www.deafcouncil.org.uk/affila.htm
We are delighted to announce that Susan Daniels, recently elected Chair of UK Council on Deafness, has been awarded the OBE in the New Year Honours List. The award is for services to children with special needs. Susan has been Chief Executive of NDCS since 1992 during which time NDCS has grown rapidly to the point where it is now the world’s largest childhood deafness charity with an income of over £11 million, providing information and support to tens of thousands of families each year. In 2003 Susan was appointed as a Commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) and in 2005 received a fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire. She is Chair of Groundbreakers, Women Leaders in the Voluntary Sector, an informal network of women Chief Executives from across the voluntary sector, is a qualified teacher of the deaf and has been a lecturer in further and higher education at the City Lit Centre for Deaf People in London. She was previously the Head of Education, Employment and Training and latterly Head of Policy and Research at the RNID before joining NDCS.
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness
Rosie Winterton MP, Minister of State for Health Services, addressed the meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness on Tuesday 29 November 2005. The Minister informed the members of national initiatives being funded by the Department of Health to implement the recommendations in the Towards Equity and Access Report. The verbatim report of the meeting can be found on the website at www.appg-deafness.org.uk
The next All-Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness meeting will be held on Tuesday 17 January 2006 at 4.00pm. The speaker will be Anne McGuire MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary (Disabled People). The Minister will be speaking to the group about promoting access to communication support for the many deaf people who do not use sign language and who require the services of Verbatim Speech to Text Reporters, Lipspeakers, Notetakers, Cued Speech Transliterators and Deafblind Communicators. Guests wishing to attend should contact Jonathan Isaac for details - j.isaac@deafcouncil.org.uk
A delegation from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness will be visiting Charing Cross Audiology Department on Wednesday 1 February 2006.
Trustee Induction and Networking Day
Please note change of date.
The date for the annual Trustee Induction and Networking Day has been changed, it will now be held on Tuesday 21 March 2006 at Britannia Street Conference Centre, London.
For all Chairs, Trustees and Chief Executives of organisations working with deaf people, an opportunity for new trustees to learn about their responsibilities and for experienced trustees to bring their knowledge up to date. A unique opportunity to meet trustees from other organisations working with deaf people and to share experiences with each other.
Full details will be included in the February Bulletin. For further details about attending or exhibiting please contact Jenny Hitchen - j.hitchen@deafcouncil.org.uk
Mental Health and Deafness – Addressing Basic Rights
The Mental Health Foundation and Sign: The National Society for Mental Health and Deafness, have produced a service provider information pack to raise awareness of the basic rights of deaf people when receiving mental health services. This jointly developed pack gives those commissioning and providing mental health services essential up to date information on mental health and deafness in order to make services more inclusive. The pack has been endorsed by Rosie Winterton MP, Minister of State for Health Services, and Liam Byrne MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Services: “We very much welcome the publication of this service providers’ guide to Mental Health and Deafness. The pack sets out clearly the kind of things that Deaf and deafened people should realistically expect from services and also contains a very useful briefing on the relationship between mental health and deafness. We commend this pack to you and encourage all NHS organisations to endorse the Deaf Mental Health Charter.” To view the Charter pack, please visit www.mentalhealth.org.uk/deafcharter
To sign up to the Deaf Mental Health Charter, please download the form on www.mentalhealth.org.uk/deafcharter and return it to Sign.
Deaf Parent’s Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
DPPI has commissioned a new, accessible Deaf Parent’s guide to Pregnancy and Birth, due out March 2006. The innovative DVD for deaf parents and parents-to-be is presented in British Sign Language with sub-titles and voice-over and with supplementary leaflets and is endorsed by Deaf Parenting UK. The resources, produced by Remark! are both deaf-led and parent-led and have been developed with the input of a wide range of health professionals. It is envisaged that the resources will be used by deaf parents and professionals working with them. For a review copy or further information contact: Shanta Everington, DPPI, Unit F9, 89-93 Fonthill Road, London, N4 3JH. Email: Shanta@dppi.org.uk
DEAFAX ICT Research and Development Unit – Deaf Graduates
The Higher Education Academy has commissioned the Deafax ICT R&D Unit, which is based at the Institute of Education, University of Reading, to conduct a study concerned with deaf graduates' reflections on their undergraduate experience. The main focus of this initial study is to examine how Information and Communications Technology has been used over the past five years; but it will also consider other aspects which include learning, teaching, interpreting, careers, guidance, deaf/hearing communication etc. that provide an important context for its use. Appropriate recommendations will be made to the HEA as to how higher educational institutions and other organisations have provided multimedia/ learning opportunities and procedures for deaf students to maximise their potential and where improvements might be needed now and in the future. The Deafax Researchers would like to invite any deaf graduates who have been awarded degrees in the past five years and wish to be part of this study to contact them, preferably by email: ken@deafax.org or harold@silver489.fsnet.co.uk Text 0870 770 2463, Voice 0870 770 3275 or Fax 0870 770 2462.If you wish to communicate by Internet Video Conferencing please arrange a date and time with Ken Carter.
Communication Tactics Training for Healthcare staff in England
To implement one of the recommendations made in the Towards Equity and Access Report, the Department of Health are making funding available for the provision of Communication Tactics Training for Healthcare staff in England to be provided by local deaf organisations. The project is being coordinated by UK Council on Deafness and will provide training for trainers and assessors for the CACDP Level 1 Certificate in Communication Tactics with Deaf People and funding for organisations to provide a training day for every PCT in England. There will be an Information Day for the project on Tuesday 21 February. Any organisation interested in participating in the project should contact Jonathan Isaac for further details j.isaac@deafcouncil.org.uk
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