Cherry Garden school have been working alongside Voiceability as part of a Southwark innovation project to increase accessibility across the borough. As part of this work, we co-created a range of training sessions and resources looking at supporting providers of services for children and young people outside of the school environment.

Our training covered a range of areas which can impact accessibility and inclusivity and centred around best practice examples and thoughtful discussion between participants relating to their own settings. We were able to identify many common themes in terms of potentaial barriers, as well as drawing on the collective strengths of the many experienced and knowledgeable participants from a range of sectors.

Cherry Garden School created an auditing tool to support in opening up discussion around areas for development within a range of settings and groups and the associated training helped to expand on these areas. The auditing tool is a useful starting point if you are interested in finding ways to reflect on your current provision and start to think about ways that you could further develop in this area.

Cherry Garden School Accessibility Auditing Tool for External Providers

Voicability have gathered the voice of parents and service users to shape the development of a Toolkit of resources with contributions from many experienced partners in this area. The Toolkit of resources, which looks at best practice and ideas to develop accessibility and inclusivity can also be found below.