Vocational Projects Update
Surrey Choices Vocational Projects are changing in line with our Changing Days programme, so that the people we support are learning skills they want to learn and getting ready for employment. This Easy Read guide explains our plans for the future of Vocational Projects, and how we want to work with the people we support…
Celebrating Co-Production Week 2020
People supported by The Farnham Community Group talked about ways they had helped others in the past, with one lady recalling the ways she and her mum helped homeless people by cooking them meals and giving them clothes. This sparked a year of fundraising, planning and delivered by people who attend the group. The end…
Adjusting to a new day to day due to the Coronavirus for an autistic person
Adjusting to a new day to day due to the Coronavirus for an autistic person. T has high functioning aspergers. He is in his first year of college, studying Engineering. Since the Governments decision on ‘lockdown’ to the UK, T tells us how it has impacted his day to day life. In the space of…
World Social Work Day 2020: Promoting the Importance of Human Relationships
Today as we are celebrating World Social Work Day, I have been reflecting on what it means to me to be a social worker. I realised that I really never wanted to be anything else from as early on as I can remember. Now, after a long career in which I have had the privilege…
Martin Woodward highly commended at BASE conference 2019
This year, the annual British Association for Supported Employment (BASE) Conference was held in Manchester from Tuesday 5 – Wednesday 6 November. Some of our colleagues attended and a very special award was highly commended by our colleague Martin Woodward, EmployAbility Team Administrator. Although Martin was not at the event, he was highly commended the…