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Speak Out
Council
Meeting
11 March 2016
Meadows
Community Centre,
Cambridge City
Technology
“Things That
Help Us”
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People who were at the meeting
Speak Out Leaders:
Michelle Mansfield – The Fens
Bill Jones – City and South
Sean Nightingale – East Cambs and Hunts (temporary)
Russell Henke – High Supports Needs
Neil Adams – Young People
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Other VoiceAbility Staff and Volunteers:
Ali Fawkes- Consultant for the Speak Out Online project.
Harriet Maisey – IMCA Advocate
Claire Mathieu – Young People’s Project Worker
Jenni Parker – Consultant for the Speak Out Online
Project
Sue Reed - Project Manager for the Speak Out Online
James Sheard – Speak Out Coordinator
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People and organisations who came:
Cambridge City Council
Cambridgeshire County Council
Castle School
Daniel Zeichner – MP for Cambridge City.
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Dimensions
Rowan
SENSE
South Cambridgeshire District Council
Some of the people and organisations who said they
could not come:
Elspeth Jones – Speak Out Leader for the Speak Up
Spectrum
Heidi Allen MP for South Cambridgeshire
Granta School
Horizon Day Centre, Cambridge.
Russell Street Support Living
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Please email [email protected] for a full
list of apologies
Reporting Back
Sean Nightingale led the leader’s news presentation.
Each leader told us what they had been doing in their
area.
Questions for the leaders
What is a safe place?
Sean explained that they are places like shops or
restaurant. You can go there if you feel confused, lost or
something bad happens.
Update - we now have a Safe Places page on the
Speak Out Council site, here where you can find out
more.
Have you had contact with the South Cambridgeshire
Youth Council?
Bill said no. But we would be interested in doing this.
Update – we have now made email contact with the
group and want to arrange for Neil or Bill to meet
with them.
For a copy of the Leaders’ News please email
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Speaking Out
Castle School presentation
Castle School told us about how they work together.
Every class has someone to represent them.
They talk to the Head Teacher when they want to make a
change. They have asked to get after school club to run
two days a week and to have more toys and activities.
Questions for Castle School
What is the job of the School Council?
To make the school better for everyone.
For a copy of the Castle School presentation please
email [email protected]
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Rowan Service Presentation
Bridget is one of the staff at Rowan. She showed us a
video about what they do.
They do lots of arts and craft which they show to people.
Sometimes the art goes on display in other places.
All of the people who go to Rowan then told us why they
think it is such a great place to use. They told us that
they had made lots of friends, done lots of creative work
and had fun.
For a copy of the Rowan’s presentation please email
Questions for Rowan
How much does it cost to go to Rowan?
£40.40 per day per student.
Are you only open to people in Cambridge city?
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No we have students across Cambridgeshire.
How can people support Rowan with getting money?
One of our students is swimming the length of the
English Channel in a swimming pool. If you would like to
sponsor her get in touch with Rowan.
Technology and the Government – Bill Jones and
Daniel Zeichner
Bill Jones gave a presentation about one type of
technology, called social media.
Social media are places like Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram on the internet. You can go there to chat,
share photos and videos, or play games with other
people.
He talked about how it was a good way for people to talk
to one another. Social media was good at that.
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He said there were problems though like harassment.
Harassment is when someone talks or touches you in a
way you don’t like. This could be because they are being
rude or unkind, or just because you don’t want to talk or
be touched.
He said a good way to stop harassment was to talk to
someone you trusted.
Daniel Zeichner MP talked about some of the things the
government could do about this.
He said technology like social media should help us to
have more control of over what we can do.
He thought the government needed to listen to people
with a learning disability or autism and know they might
do things in a different way.
Technology could help with this.
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Questions for Daniel and Bill
Should we be worried about how to use Facebook
safely?
Bill said we should be worried a bit. We needed to
remember to talk to people we know.
Should wheelchair users have to give way to buggy
users?
Daniel said it was hard to say sometimes who had the
biggest need.
Update – The Speak Out Council are doing a project on
whether people with wheelchairs can use the wheelchair
space. They will tell everyone the results of this soon.
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Group work on the Internet
For a copy of the group work questions and answers
please email: [email protected]
Key words to stay safe online
Block – if you block someone or something online, they or it
cannot reach you anymore.
Troll - a troll is someone online who will say something nasty
ways to stop things that annoy us, we don’t want or mean our
computer will not work.
Virus – a virus on your computer means that it will be very
slow or not work at all. You should download an anti-virus
program you trust on your computer to stop this from
happening.
How can we make the internet better and easier?
Better blocks which means we do not find nasty people,
photos or videos.
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More photos, symbols and videos that help us understand.
Have more courses or people nearby who know about the
internet.
Only talk to people we trust about what we do online.
Only talk to people we know online.
Know how to keep our personal information safe.
It should answer questions however we ask it and tell us the
truth.
Make ways to keep our information safe, like passwords,
easier to use.
There should be lots of ways to go online.
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Who can we talk to make the internet easier?
People that are paid to help us like teachers, support workers
and personal assistants
People who look after us but are not paid, like carers,
guardians and parents
People who know about IT or can teach us about it.
Websites that tell us what we need to know.
Public services like the county council, police or hospitals.
Websites we can tell when things go wrong.
People who make Easy Read videos, photos and symbols.
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Assistive Technology teams.
Companies that make technology.
People who make computer programmes.
Consultation Report – what we found out and how
they did it.
Neil and Claire did a presentation about our consultation
on technology.
For a copy of the presentation and consultation please
email: [email protected]
Questions on the consultation report
How do you decide to consult with?
We think about:
If we have already been to that place not that long ago.
We try not to go to the same place too often.
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2. Going to all the parts of Cambridgeshire. We always
do at least one consultation in: East Cambridgeshire; the
Fens; Huntingdonshire; South Cambs and Cambridge
City.
3. Talking to people with lots of sorts of learning disability
and across the autistic spectrum. We try to have at one
consultation either for high support needs or high
functioning autism.
Does anyone know of a place that can help people with
High Support Needs to use the internet?
We knew of places like CamTrust, but we weren’t sure if
they had many high support needs service users. If
anyone knows of a place email us.
Are there any websites that are easy to use?
Lots of disability organisations like SCOPE, MENCAP
and VoiceAbility are quite easy to use. The Speak Out
Council is also working to make sure the NHS and
County Council make their sites easier to use.
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Assistive Technology Presentation
Assistive Technology Russell Henke (Speak Out Leader)
and Lucy Forrest (Cambridgeshire Assistive Technology
Team)
Assistive Technology is something that helps us do
more by ourselves. This could be anything from a tin
opener to a program on your mobile phone.
They showed us five things that can help us. Russell
explained why each of these could help.
Questions on Assistive Technology
How can we see the equipment you have today?
Assistive Technology have a place at Addenbrookes
where people can go to try the aids.
How are you funded?
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Assistive Technology are funded by the County Council
and the Clinical Commissioning Group.
The Clinical Commissioning Group is part of the NHS
that chooses who runs GP Services, hospitals and other
health services where you live.
How do you talk to nurses who work where we live?
Assistive Technology shares equipment and makes sure
people know about their work.
Group work questions on Assistive Technology
Why would people prefer traditional technology to stay safe
or choose?
Easier to use
Less worried that we could break it or get it wrong
Can be hard to know how modern technology works.
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Traditional stuff is already enough to keep you safe or choose
Screens are not accessible
Age
Might mean we don’t get to talk to a person
Not everyone has modern technology
Don’t have the support to use it
Can be quicker
How could we make modern things better?
Use Easy Read methods.
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Have the right devices for the right person.
Ask people what they want
Make it easier to stay safe when we use technology.
Make them quicker than traditional technology.
Give people lessons
Use more audio and video.
Make buttons bigger
Make text bigger
Longer battery life
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The Big Question– Michelle Mansfield (Speak Out
Leader).
Would you rather have your mobile phone with you or
your best friend?
Here is what people thought
23 people said their best friend.
7 people said their phone.
4 people they did not know.
Action Points and Feedback
Action Points
Dean from SENSE – Try to make the next High Support Needs
Meeting.
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Emma Anderson – Tell the Speak Out Council that the
meeting was ok.
Kerri David – Try to attend again.
Fiona Donnelley – Think more about technology and
communication assistance.
- Share this technology/Speak Out Council with my
colleagues
Cllr Oscar Gillespie – Follow the progress of VoiceAbility
Technology work, mention it to the City Council democracy
and committee working group.
Louis Harbert – Tell the Speak Out Council he had an amazing
day!
Paulette Lewis – Share experience with my Team
Manager/Lead Officer
- Check Wish List with Castle School re: toys/equipment
for their after school club.
Siobhan MacBean – Contact Claire re: a shared list & good
websites and how to share this.
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- Contact ATT about this links with safe and well
equipment.
Sue Reed – Talk to the Speak Out Council team about the
consultation projects.
Cllr Bridget Smith – Put the Speak Out Council in touch with
the South Cambs Youth Parliament.
Andy Vickers – Contact Rowan about creating art, improving
lives.
Feedback
Leaders report
8 out of 10 people found the leaders report interesting
and useful.
Speaking Out Castle School and Rowan
8 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
Consultation
9 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
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Government and Technology
8 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
Assistive Technology
9 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
Debate on Phone or Friend
8 out of 10 people found it interesting and useful.
Should we use Meadows Community Centre again?
9 out of 10 people said yes.
Overall feedback
84 out of 100 people thought that parts of the meeting
were interesting and useful
15 out of 100 people thought some parts of the meeting
were okay or they were not sure.
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Other feedback
Have the agenda available in Braille.
We will ask people we invite to the meeting if they need
us to do the agenda in another way.
Help people speak more clearly.
We will try to fix our cordless microphones, or see if we
have enough money for new ones.
Check if the car park is accessible for all vehicles.
We will add this to our questions we ask all venues.
Tell you more about what we have done.
We will try and do this through our new YouTube
channel.
Make the screen bigger or easier to see.
We will play with the projector and the projector stand to
see if we can do this.
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Many thanks to everyone who came to our meeting
If you have any questions or want more information
please contact us:
01223 555863
Neil Sean Bill Russell Elspeth Michelle
