Inclusive Volunteering in Health and Social Care Project

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• Inclusive Volunteering in Health and Social Care
  Project
• Department of Health, Section 64 funding
• Becki Cullen

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• About Scope
• Scope is the leading disability organisation in
  England and Wales, our main areas of work are
  focused in trading, independent living services,
  fundraising and campaigning
• Our aim is that disabled people achieve equality
  a society in which they are as valued and have
  the same human and civil rights as everyone else.

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• Scopes Volunteering Strategy Unit
• Scope currently has approximately 10,000
  volunteers and our target is that at least 20 of
  our volunteers are disabled
• Last October our Inclusive Volunteering Project
  (IVP) was launched in recognition of the many
  disabling barriers disabled people can encounter
  when accessing volunteering opportunities
• It is within IVP that the Health and Social Care
  Project is now based

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• Inclusive Volunteering (Health and Social Care)
  Project
• Secured funding from the Department of Health to
  increase the availability and inclusivity of
  volunteering for disabled people within Health
  and Social Care settings
• 3 year project beginning July 2007, covering the
  9 regions of England

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• Key project outcome
• 2007 - 2010
• The projects overall aim is to further
  establish, maintain and support the development
  of varied, fully inclusive and meaningful
  volunteering opportunities for disabled people
  across the Health and Social Care sector

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• Further intended outcomes
• To increase the number of disabled people
  volunteering across the Health and Social Care
  Sector
• To establish supportive partnerships with a range
  of Health and Social Care organisations
• To encourage Health and Social Care Volunteer
  Managers to engage disabled volunteers through
  tailor-made IVP training and ongoing support

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• Further intended outcomes cont

• To provide a brokerage service to Health and
  Social Care
• organisations wishing to engage proactively,
  inclusively and
• positively with disabled volunteers. 
• To challenge the helper / helped distinction
  by focusing on
• ability rather than disability
• To enable disabled volunteers to be empowered by
  their own
• involvement in shaping and designing their
  volunteering
• placements
• To continue our lobbying of Government for an
  Access to
• Volunteering Fund

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• Contact details
• Becki Cullen
• Inclusive Volunteering Officer for Health and
  Social Care
• Scope
• 6 Market Road
• London N7 9PW
• 0207 619 7107
• Becki.cullen_at_scope.org.uk