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dealing with disability

< Collaboration is key to success at the Disability Resource Centre in Luton. The centre, which has been running for six years, brings together statutory health and social services, voluntary organisations and users to provide a range of services for disabled people throughout the county of Bedfordshire.

The idea for the centre came from a group of people with disabilities who were finding it difficult to get the information they needed to live independent lives. Bob Morgan, a member of this group, has been chair of its board of trustees ever since. Like Morgan, more than half the trustees, over a third of the staff and most of the volunteers have a disability. 'The fact that the Disability Resource Centre is led and managed by disabled people is one of its great strengths,' he adds.

The centre aims to provide a focal point for disability services across the county. 'To achieve this we have worked with South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare Trust, Bedfordshire Social Services and Luton Social Services, which have all relocated existing services to the centre. The centre is also a base for voluntary organisations, including South Bedfordshire Dial-a-Ride, Hospice at Home and Bedfordshire Advocacy Service for Older People,' explains Morgan.

Core funding is provided by Bedfordshire Health Authority but grants and charitable funds have also been used. Staff provide free information on equipment, transport, holidays, leisure, welfare benefits, support groups, employment opportunities and much more, explains information manager Sue Mills. 'We have a dedicated disability database which holds over 5,000 national items of information and 2,000 local items, as well as a reference centre with books and videos.'

Around three quarters of enquiries are by phone and initial queries are often 'testing the water', Mills believes. 'Once callers feel confident about us and the information we provide they revisit the service with a range of problems they need answers for.'

The centre's equipment display area covers over 2,000 square feet and is packed with furniture and accessories, including hoists and kitchen, bath and shower equipment. Designed along the lines of a real home, displays include a fitted kitchen and bathroom, bedroom and living area. Sections devoted to mobility include wheelchairs, walking frames, scooters and children's equipment.

All the equipment has been donated or loaned by manufacturers and suppliers, says Morgan. He adds: 'There is no sales pressure. People can come and try things out in a relaxed environment. If there is nothing suitable for them here, we can get back to the manufacturers and ask them to bring different items along. Independent advice on equipment is also available from the occupational therapist employed by the centre.' In addition, the centre is home to Europe's first 'Independence Square'. Modelled on similar ventures in the USA and Canada, it includes a mock street with pelican crossing, a supermarket, post office, bank, cafe, house and a petrol pump. There is also part of a Hoppa bus and a car (minus the engines). Taped traffic sounds, the general noise of town life and photo murals of street life add to its authenticity.

The square is used regularly by its sponsors, the local community trust, to help patients learn how to cope with their disability in a variety of situations – such as when they are using a cash dispenser machine. It is also used by the local wheelchair service for training, and by local schools and other organisations aiming to raise awareness of disabilities.

'Everything is there to give a real simulation of a town centre, down to wheelchair-unfriendly kerbs and cracked paving stones,' says Morgan. 'The square is fully functional, with real groceries in the supermarket and a public telephone – even the buttons on the crossing lights start the bleeping crossing sound.'

Local statutory agencies have a number of teams based at the centre. Bedfordshire and Luton Community NHS Trust, for example, sites its neurological team there (a physiotherapist, occupational therapist and speech and language therapists who provide home rehabilitation), along with its hospital at home and elderly rehabilitation teams plus continence and wheelchair services. Luton Borough Council's social services department houses its physical disability and visual impairment teams at the centre, and Bedfordshire County Council uses it as a base for its social and community care physical disability team.

Almost a hundred people from the agencies involved now work at the site - and more services would like to relocate there, but space is at a premium, says Morgan. 'Health, social services, voluntary services and users are all collaborating to make services for disabled people and their carers easier to access and user focused. It gives me such pleasure to go into the staff room and see the mix of people all there, talking to each other. The centre really does break down barriers.' Certainly, it is well placed to play a central advisory role on implementation of the wider provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act.



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