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The Which is called "No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility" Consultation closes on Wednesday 22nd October 2008 To download the consultation documents - The Toolkit with questions, click here. Easy Read version: Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 For the full consultation document, click here The DWP consultation period begins on 21 July 2008 and runs until 22 October 2008. Please ensure your response reaches us by that date. You can respond by post, email, fax as follows: Post: Room 249, Level 2, The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6HT
A number of consultation events will be arranged shortly, if you wish to request information when it is available please email us at welfare.reform@dwp.gsi.gov.uk Or visit the
The Aim (Access to Information for Minorities) Project is run by Bradford Talking Media, who have over 25 years experience in training and information delivery in a broad range of formats and languages; last year they completed 91 different projects in 27 different languages, reaching over 200,000 people. Funded by the Teaching Primary Care Trust, the project will find new ways of assisting hard-to-reach communities to access information and support about the health issues that matter most to them, and in a way that is most accessible to them. The first stage in the process is to look at current provision – what sources of health information are available to adults with learning disability or mental health problems, which of these are most helpful and why, and what needs to be done to improve or make more relevant or more accessible the information that’s already out there. Central to this will be a survey of service users to ascertain what they want to know about, and in what ways current information provision can be improved, particularly for those for whom reading English is more difficult. One key thing we’re keen to investigate is - what is the best platform for delivering and accessing information, bearing in mind that ease of delivery and ease of access are not necessarily the same thing? We all know the frustrations of having produced a brilliantly researched, beautifully presented and perfectly targeted piece of information, only for it to gather dust on the shelf because no one knows about it or can access it, so it’s vital to get this right. As far as the Spoken Word in concerned, is the internet the way forward, with streaming audio or downloadable MP3 files becoming more widely used? Is CD still the easiest option? What about USB memory sticks? Could we combine EasyRead and audio? The next stage of the process will address the areas of need we’ve identified. Particularly, we’ll be recruiting people for a 12 week, 2 half-days a week training course designed to equip them to research, record, present and edit their own ideas of what health information should be like. Some people might want to take on a technical role – recording interviews and presenters in the studio, editing and optimising sound clips and so on. Others might want to be involved in researching information and sources of information, presenting, interviewing. Together, we’ll aim to produce an information resource for a local voluntary or community group and make it accessible – in whatever format we agree is best. And we’ll continue to offer the group access to equipment and support after the course is finished so they can carry on working. At the end of the three year project, we’re hoping that as many as nine different groups will have the skills and confidence to be generating their own programmes to meet their own information needs in the ways that suit them best.
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consultation on changes to welfare reform system is now published.
website for more information, 
