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Trustee Induction & Networking Day
Tuesday 21 March 2006
10.30 am – 4.30 pm
Britannia Street Conference Centre, 27 Britannia Street,
London WC1X 9JP
In the morning our guest speakers were:
Governance Essentials: An Introduction to the Roles and Responsibilities of Trustees.
Presented by Sue Smith, Policy Adviser at the Charity Commission. Sue will give a brief overview of the roles and responsibilities of Trustees, will describe the Charity Commission's approach to regulation and support, and provide an update on some key areas of policy development.
Collaboration, Cooperation, Consortia, Merger…. What Trustees should be thinking about when considering joint working.
Kate Aldous, Manager of the NCVO Collaborative Working Unit. The Unit offers information to organisations considering any type of joint working, ranging from sharing facilities or providing a joint service, to full mergers. This session will cover the issues that Trustees need to be aware of when considering working with other organisations.
In the afternoon, in response to feedback from last year’s very successful Trustee Induction and Networking Day, there were more informal sessions enabling greater discussion and networking. Sessions facilitated by UK Council on Deafness Trustees and staff included:
UK Council on Deafness 2006 Annual Conference
”Action by Working Together”
Britannia Street Conference Centre, Kings Cross, London, WC1X 9JP
Tuesday 7th November 2006
10.30am – 4.30pm
The Conference will showcase innovative work from across the spectrum of deafness, resulting in a better understanding of the diverse activities of the many organisations working with deaf people across the UK.
A one day multi-disciplinary conference for all professionals working with deaf people
The third Annual Deafness Conference is an opportunity for all professionals working with deaf people to meet and network with colleagues and to gain a greater understanding of developments taking place across the country and across the spectrum of deafness.
Delegates at previous Annual Conferences have commented:
“A great networking opportunity and a chance to learn about new projects”
“Opportunity to meet and chat with other people from the sector. Get updates on other activities. Chance to publicise our own work”
“Great to hear about all that UK Council on Deafness and their members are doing. Encouragement and enthusiasm to take things forward in our area and determination to network and co-work more with other organisations”
Keynote Address - Bruce Calderwood - Head of the Office for Disability Issues
Bruce Calderwood is the Head of the ODI and the Director for Disabled People and Carers in the Department for Work and Pensions. He leads the team of advisers who support the Minister for Disabled People. Bruce is a career civil servant who specialises in social policy. He has worked in the private offices of two Secretaries of State, and as a policy adviser to the Premier’s Department in the State of Victoria in Australia. He led the cross-Government reviews that resulted in the creation of Jobseeker’s Allowance and of Supporting People. The ODI works with all government departments to develop and improve services for disabled people, and in particular with the departments responsible for health, transport, education and skills, work and pensions, trade and industry, and for communities and local government.
Guest speaker - Father Cyril Axelrod - Deafblindness and Deafblindhood
This fascinating talk will explore how to identify a difference between Deafblindness and Deafblindhood; the natural causes of deafblindness and deafblindhood based on culture, language and health; and a classification of different groups of people relating to deafblindness and deafblindhood, for example, what is the difference between people acquiring deaf and deafblindhood.
Born profoundly deaf into an Orthodox Jewish hearing family in South Africa, in adulthood he was baptised into the Catholic Church and trained for the priesthood. In his pastoral ministry in many parts of the world with deaf and deafblind people, he has used over eight different indigenous sign languages. Defying the rules of apartheid, he established a multi-racial school for deaf children in Soweto, set up a hostel for deaf homeless people in Pretoria, and pioneered an employment centre in Cape Town. Undeterred by the diagnosis of Usher syndrome that has led to his blindness, he continues to work tirelessly for others in Britain. A man of spirituality, gentleness, compassion, leadership and vision, he is an ambassador for all deaf and deafblind people.
Launch of the ACE Campaign Report
The Access to Communication in English Campaign aims to increase the provision of Language and Communication Access Services for deaf people whose preferred language is English. The campaign is supported by many national and regional organisations and the campaign report will make recommendations for developing the professions employed to provide Language and Communication Access Services including Lipspeakers, Cued Speech Transliterators, Speech to Text Reporters, Manual Notetakers, Electronic Notetakers, Deafblind Interpreter (Manual) and Deafblind Communicator Guides.
Supporting presentations
Fit for the Future - Bob Peckford, CACDP
This presentation will address new developments in training and qualifications in communication skills for workers with deaf people and for deaf people themselves. Set in the context of developments since the HAC report and the ACE Campaign, the paper will refer to collaboration with stakeholders leading to the development of a new portfolio of CACDP nationally accredited, fit for purpose qualifications designed to meet current and future needs. It will illustrate the flexible, cohesive framework of units and qualifications and the range of professional roles to which they apply. The paper will describe the contribution these qualifications will make to addressing the shortage of Language Service Professionals highlighted by the ACE campaign, and to the skills gaps amongst other workers with deaf people employed by the deaf voluntary sector and other service providers.
Welcome Hear! - Miriam Marchi & Linda Isaac, Royal Association for Deaf People
Funded by the London Development Agency this pioneering project is designed to improve the employability of deaf people by working with employers, encouraging them to instigate best practice in recruiting and working with deaf people, including: how to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act; working with interpreters and communicators; understanding what the Government Access to Work scheme is able to offer employers who are recruiting deaf people; what constitutes a “reasonable adjustment”; basic deaf awareness and BSL awareness.
Counselling Training - Trudi Collier & Teresa Brasier, Scottish Council on Deafness
SCoD, in response to a growing concern about the availability and accessibility of mental health services to the Scottish deaf and deafblind population, has secured three years of funding from The Scottish Executive and Big Lottery Fund to run the Project with the following 3 aims: to develop and deliver Certificate Courses in Counselling Skills to deaf and deafblind people; to deliver deaf and deafblind awareness training to mainstream counsellors; and to improve accessibility to mainstream counselling courses.
ICT in Education - Kirsty Crombie-Smith, Deafax
During the last two years Deafax’s research team has led a project which examined the influence of ICT on education and how it can be utilised by parents and Teachers of the Deaf to facilitate deaf student’s learning. The presentation will showcase some of the modules developed as part of this project. It will look at how they have been created in response to the needs of the teachers and how the trial group have responded to them. It demonstrates how interactive ICT modules can be used to help unlock areas of the curriculum that normally remain a mystery and overcome problem learning areas, and will circulate new ideas and approaches to the use of ICT in education with the aim of encouraging others in the field to try new and innovative ideas in regards their ICT usage.
Exhibitors
The UK Council on Deafness AGM will take place during the lunch-break.
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