RAD Staff Conference

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RAD Staff Conference
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Housekeeping Health and Safety

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Welcome to New Staff

• From Management Support Services and Head Office
• Rae Walker, Project Officer
• Christina Pieri, Green Lanes Project Coordinator
• From the Advice, Advocacy and Employment team
• Sue Mountford, PA and Team Administrator
• Laura Atherton, Advice Worker

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Welcome to New Staff

• From the Learning Disabilities and Mental Health
  team
• Andrew Thomas Assistant Team Leader, London Kent
  and Surrey
• Victoria Gater, Community Support Worker London
• Julie Gibbs, Kent/Medway Community Support Worker
• Barry Gibbs, Kent/Medway Community Support
  Worker.
• Abigail Newman, Kent/Medway Community Support
  Worker.
• Debbie Strutt, Administration support
• Ronald Hall, Community Support Worker Kent.

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Welcome to New Staff

• From the Children Families service, Youth
  Service and Hearing Advice
• Claire Perdomo, Deaf Youth Project Leader, London
  South

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Welcome to New Staff

• From the Interpreting Team
• Loquessa Smart, Senior Interpreter
• Ian Connelly, MRSLI
• Hannah Dalton, JTI
• Jo Banks, PA to Head of interpreting
• Deb Nelson, Finance Assistant

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Welcome back

• Ken Dudley

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Welcome to our Guests

• Joanna Wootten, Deputy Chief Executive, SIGN
• Gill Barnaby, Residential Service Manager Surrey,
  RNID

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Half Year Progress Report

• Tom Fenton
• Chief Executive

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This report will cover

• Progress in current year
• How are we doing financially
• What issues have arisen
• What does next year look like?

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What were our plans for 2005/6and are we on
track?

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Strategic Plan

• To reduce our dependence on lincome from Wills to
  zero over three years by
• Increasing the RADs income from Services from
  2.5M to 4M
• (Why from services? Because that is much more
  sustainable than short term projects. So more job
  stability.)

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Action on Growth (and other Strategic Targets)

• All members of SMT going flat out to achieve
  growth, by developing relationships with current
  and future purchasers
• Good relations forming with new areas Harrow,
  Ealing, Hammersmith Fulham, Hackney, Islington,
  Haringey, Waltham Forest, Newham, etc, etc

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Make Learning Disability service the best in our
area

• Continued growth especially in support services
  in Essex and Kent
• Presentation to Essex Social Service Sensory Team
• Appointment of new assistant team leader
• Major bid for residential service in Surrey
• Application for CSCI registration

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Become a leading service in Mental Health

• Appointment of new assistant team leader
• Phase three of Brent project spreading the
  service to other areas
• Participated in Mental Health conference in Essex
  in November
• SLA with an Essex PCT
• Planning future service developments

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Grow the Interpreting Service

• Takeover of the Sign Language Bureau, added
  300,000 to RADs turnover
• Next years budgeted income over 1,200,000
• Increase in number of Interpreters to 18 and
  coordinating staff to 8

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Develop a partnership to train new interpreters

• Partnership with University of Sussex at Brighton
  is developing well
• First Level 4 interpreting course to start Spring
  2006

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Develop local Advocacy Services

• Increase in Advocacy Service in Essex
• Secondment of floating Deaf Support Worker from
  Essex Adult Social Care Department
• New Advocacy Service in Ealing
• Pioneering new service MSN/Webcam consultations

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Create a specialist Deaf Advice Service

• Rob Wilks started training as solicitor
• Basis for operating at Law Centre level
• Partnership with 10 CABx in London due to launch
  at beginning of January
• Research in local needs
• Fundraising
• Advice referrals
• Signed info on RAD service

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Grow our new Employment Service

• Essex service delivering on all its targets and
  getting people into work
• Contract with LSC Central London is delivering on
  all its targets, in partnership with Access to
  Employment
• Contract with Islington grown to 1.5 days per
  week, good uptake
• Staff team increased with arrival of Suzie
  Everett, Employment Advisor

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Increase our Ethnic Minority group work

• More cultural festivals
• More training
• More collaboration with other ethnic services,
  including Forced Marriages Unit of Foreign
  Commonwealth Office

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Training

• Finished BSL Awareness Project (for Department
  for Work Pensions) well ahead of targets
• Major new project (Communication Tactics for
  Health front line staff) about to start
• Pan London BSL L3 project had difficult start but
  now going well

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Build the Youth service, with more Youth workers

• Won contract for London South
• Recruited new Deaf Youth Worker
• Set up 2 new Deaf Youth Clubs
• Twickenham
• Sutton

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Hearing Advice

• New Contract with London Borough of Harrow
• Numbers rising in Barking Dagenham

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Create new Services

• Research planned for Hackney and other local
  boroughs on needs of Deaf people
• Working on project about access for Deaf children
  to leisure and recreation services

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Community Development

• Relations with Deaf Clubs going really well. Also
  maintenance of Centres.
• Romford lease of room to Havering Alzheimers
  Society (makes Centre more financially safe)
• Achievement of Community Fund 3 year grant for
  development of lunch clubs in London

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Progress on New Centres

• Green Lanes request for planning permission has
  been submitted
• Capital appeal in progress
• Opening early in 2007
• Clapham freehold acquired (at last). Discussions
  with partners (Lambeth and Metropolitan Housing)
  to re-start 2006

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Move Management Support Services to Colchester

• Recruitment of new staff team 2 of the 3 posts
  filled
• New office found and agreed
• Who goes where decided
• On track for starting work in Colchester in
  January

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How are we doing financially?

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Management Accounts at end of October (7 months)
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Other Issues of the first half year

• Access to Work
• New empowering regime will be hard at first.
  Dont let the strains damage relations
• Staff Interpreters
• Something we need to be aware of
• Communication between teams
• Health and Safety

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What can you do to help?

• Deliver a quality service
• Communicate to colleagues, epecially what affects
  the work or relationships of other teams
• Be proud of RAD and show it at all times
• Enjoy work

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BSL Week Event

• This years event in Chelsmford Shopping Centre
  was a great success.
• We ought to have one major RAD event.
• SMT invites people who are interested in planning
  and organising this to volunteer (please tell you
  Head of Dept)

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What does next year look like?
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April 2006 March 2007

• Very tough budget
• Faster growth for some teams resulting strains
  and stresses, as well as opportunities
• Period of stability for Interpreting Team
• Probable new office in Essex another move. Who
  for?
• Opening of first new Deaf Centre for nearly 50
  years

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Sad Farewell and thank you to those who are
leaving

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Thank you for your hard work and support