| WHAT is the Social
Inclusion Planner? |
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The Social
Inclusion Planner is a fully-featured software package
that supports the development of effective plans for social
inclusion. It has emerged from the NDT's
distinctive training courses on social inclusion,
and has been brought to reality with support from the
Scottish Executive, North Lanarkshire Council, and NHS
Lanarkshire.
The SIP is available for download at this site. And it's
free. Yes, FREE! |
| But how can a computer
application help people to achieve social inclusion? |
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It's
all very well to believe in social inclusion for people
with learning disabilities or mental health issues, but
that doesn't make it easy to achieve. For most people,
working effectively to support social inclusion is not
something that ‘comes naturally’. It’s
work that requires clear thinking, a high level of skills,
and a body of knowledge to work from.
The problem is not just that many staff have not received
training for the task. The underlying problem is that
there hasn’t been any well-defined skillset or body
of knowledge to offer people trying to figure out how
to support inclusion
At the core of the SIP is a database of over 100 activities
that can be used in the process of achieving inclusion.
This database has been developed by the NDT, drawing together
the knowledge that people have already gained from working
for social inclusion, plus relevant tools that were not
identified under the ‘social inclusion’ heading.
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| What does the SIP
do? |
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The
SIP enables you to build plans for inclusion that draw
on the 100+ inclusion activities in the SIP database.
Each activity is displayed with a description, a real-life
example, and hints and hazards on using it.
There's much, much more to the SIP, though. See the Features
page for more details. |
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