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Andrew Holman

Eve Rank

Richard West

Darren Mather

Kevin La Porte

 

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Colin McMillan

Katrina Brown

Emma Parr

 

Tracey Wood

Chris Kimberly

Helen Duncan

 

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Eve is a director at Inspired Services. She has worked for Inspired for many years as a co-trainer, consultant and member of our easy read group. She was a member of our advisory group for the DH on the White Paper Valuing People, helped us set up the National Forum of people with learning difficulties, helped employ the Director of the Valuing People Support Team and members. Eve also was the only commissioner on the DRC with a learning difficulty, she was a long standing member of the Learning disability taskforce and finally Chair of the Learning Disability Action Group for the DRC.

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 Tracey helps us out in the office, she works on easy read papers, keeps our paper work under control and helps us at conferences with public  information.

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Chris helps us with our EasyRead  documents and design work.

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Richard is a director at Inspired Services. He describes himself as a black British deaf person with a learning disability. His interests include making information easier, accessible transport, music and drama, he follows these through in practical work and also at a national policy level. Richard works tirelessly as a self-advocate across the country and has had a huge impact on services and Government policy.

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Andrew Holman heads up the team at Inspired Services. He is a writer, social care consultant and advocate, working nationally and abroad. He has basic and post qualifying social care qualifications and thirty years experience working with people with learning disabilities in a variety of settings, including Health, Social Services, Further Education and the voluntary sector.

 

Andrew writes regularly for a number of journals and has a Blog on Community Care Magazine on-line, highlighting everyday issues in social care.

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Andrew Holman

Darren Mather

Darren is a director at Inspired Services. He is also our publication design manager and has been with us since 2003. He is half of Inspired’s Project Management team, working alongside Sarah, making sure projects are handled and delivered on time. He has worked on numerous EasyRead reports and publications including most recently, the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards booklet, the Carers Strategy, CSCI/CQC Inspection reports and information guides. He is also our in-house model and actor, appearing in a number of our publications and is one of our voice talents for our audio productions.

 

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Kevin assists Darren in the design of our publications. He is also staff artist, drawing Clip Art for publications and custom orders. Kevin does a lot of the office IT support, keeping the computers and the network running, and maintaining the company web-site.

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Our local group work with us on easy read documents. As people who use services themselves and experienced easy read users, they are well placed to advise us on what works well for people with learning difficulties and what we could improve.

Katrina is a long standing member of the Making it Easier Group. Katrina especially likes commenting on the pictures to be used in documents.

 Colin helps us keep clean in the office and also works on easy read publications both as a member of the Making it Easier Group and as a photographic model.

As the newest member of the Making it Easier Group, Emma brings a fresh insight and energy to our work.  

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Helen is our finance manager making sure we all get paid, including meeting rules about legally employing people on benefits.

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