with brain injuries and their carers, the Shush Service User Self Help group Disability Equality Training, predominantly supports people with Access audits, implementation mental health problems and GAIN of the Disability Equality Duty supports people with autism in Grantham. Assistance in self assessment There are a large number of Campaigning for disability organisations that represent different rights. groups of people in Lincolnshire but no single organisation brining these Disability housing and design together representing a united voice consultants for independent living rights. Counselling services Training for employers and personal assistants What ULO’s are not: Due to the variation in ULO’s and their structure it is also useful to define what they are not: What support a ULO offer? A group of interested parties Each ULO must be driven locally running groups people ‘for’ finding out what is important to its A group of well meaning people members and work democratically raising money for trips and developing its own practical solutions. activities and non rights based activity There are many different models for A local group governed ULO’s and they all differ in what they nationally do. However, the common services A group where decisions are provided by a ULO are: made by non disabled people Information and Advice It is important to state that large disabled charities have at times Advocacy and peer support claimed to be ULO’s whilst describing the people they support as needing Peer Champions protection rather than rights. Due to the size of larger disabled national Support in using direct charities they have been able to payments and individual secure often scare resources allowing budgets them to further expand at the expense of locally led and run service user Support to recruit and employ organisations and groups. personal assistants
with brain injuries and their carers, the Shush Service User Self Help group predominantly supports people with mental health problems and GAIN supports people with autism in Grantham. There are a large number of organisations that represent different groups of people in Lincolnshire but no single organisation brining these together representing a united voice for independent living rights. What support a ULO offer? Each ULO must be driven locally finding out what is important to its members and work democratically developing its own practical solutions. There are many different models for ULO’s and they all differ in what they do. However, the common services provided by a ULO are: Information and Advice Advocacy and peer support Peer Champions Support in using direct payments and individual budgets Support to recruit and employ personal assistants Disability Equality Training, Access audits, implementation of the Disability Equality Duty Assistance in self assessment Campaigning for disability rights. Disability housing and design consultants Counselling services Training for employers and personal assistants What ULO’s are not: Due to the variation in ULO’s and their structure it is also useful to define what they are not: A group of interested parties running groups ‘for’ people A group of well meaning people raising money for trips and activities and non rights based activity A local group governed nationally A group where decisions are made by non disabled people It is important to state that large disabled charities have at times claimed to be ULO’s whilst describing the people they support as needing protection rather than rights. Due to the size of larger disabled national charities they have been able to secure often scare resources allowing them to further expand at the expense of locally led and run service user organisations and groups.
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