Training
Inclusion Gloucestershire is led by and represents people who face a range of disabling barriers, including people who are disabled, neurodivergent, autistic or have mental ill health.
Our training and development services are helping create a society that values, respects and understands how to work with disabled people, which is why our courses are designed and led by our Experts by Experience.
Download our Training and Development and Coproduction training leaflets below.
Training and Development Leaflet (.PDF download)
Coprodution Training Leaflet (.PDF download)
Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
We are proud to be involved with the design and the delivery of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in Learning Disability and Autism in Gloucestershire.
Following Oliver McGowan’s preventable death, his mum Paula has campaigned for Health and Social Care staff to have better training in Learning Disabilities and Autism.
As a result, this training was designed and is delivered by people with lived experience of Learning Disabilities and Autism. We worked with partners as one of the pilot sites developing the training.
The rollout of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in Learning Disability and Autism was officially launched in England on 1 November 2022.
The training, which passed into law as part of the Health and Care Act 2022, will educate and train health and social care staff, at the right level for their role, to provide better health and social care outcomes for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
It is free for health and social care staff to attend.
For more information, including instructions on how to book your place, please visit the NHS Oliver McGowan website:
We can offer Train the Trainer sessions to other areas, delivered by our skilled staff team who bring a wealth of lived experience and training experience. This training is aimed at trios (including people with lived experience of Learning Disability and Autism) who will deliver the training and enables Integrated Care Boards to have local trainers. Please contact ommt@inclusion-glos.org to find out more about what the training involves and costs.
Life in the MiND
Life in the MiND is a multimedia Inclusion Gloucestershire project dedicated to validating neurodivergence through personal experience.
Our podcast is hosted by neurodivergent people. Murray Spear and Joy-Amy Wigman talk with various guests about their relationship with neurodivergence, discovery and diagnosis and how it changed their relationship with themselves. We also tackle topics facing them and the community.
This project is supported by Gloucestershire County Council.
Take a look at the project website and listen to the podcast by following the links below.
Project website: lifeinthemind.co.uk
Listen to the podcast here: lifeinthemind.podbean.com
Films
Our film making team are helping create a society that values, respects disabled people and creates dynamic films for, with and about people who face disabling barriers. Which is why our films are created by and star our Experts by Experience.
Inclusion Gloucestershire can help you to make your information Easy Read
We can help with all kinds of things like reports or meeting agendas and minutes.
We will make your information easier to understand and use pictures to tell people what you want to say.
To tell us about your Easy Read project please use this online form and we can give you a quote.
