Our accreditation success…
At the end of 2011, two of CIC’s services achieved received reaccreditation from the National Autistic Society – Merseyside based supported employment service Vocational Support and supported living home, Strothers Road in Gateshead.
as the National Autistic Society. Three of CIC’s services have been awarded Autism Accreditation by the National Autistic Society: supported living services Strothers Road in Gateshead and Redlands Lane in Fareham, as well as our Vocational Support service in Liverpool.
Their achievements represent the excellent support they provide to people on the autism spectrum. To achieve these standards they demonstrated to autism experts that they truly understand what autism is and how it affects people, and that their service properly meets the needs of people with the condition, enabling them to grow in skills and independence.
The future Research and best practice around autism support is constantly evolving and CIC use this understanding to continually develop our services. Across our charity, we have considerable expertise in supporting people with autism and have consolidated this by developing a new autism strategy for our services in 2012.
CIC’s autism strategy will respond to the key principles that underpin the government strategies for autism in England and Scotland; enhance training and development of staff working within our autism services; and see us work with external consultants and our own Autism Champions to develop CIC’s own internal accreditation standards.
We are very excited to be launching such a progressive autism strategy. We know that there is an incredible amount of good work that goes on in CIC, helping people with autism spectrum conditions to achieve happier and more fulfilled lives, and we look forward to advancing this further in 2012.”
Howard Rice manages CIC Vocational Support, which in January 2008 became the first supported employment service in the UK to achieve Autism Accreditation. He tells us: “Gaining accreditation demonstrates that we are committed to a programme of continuous improvement and quality service delivery. But more so, it has helped us to improve the quality of the service we provide to many of our clients, not just to people on the autistic spectrum.”
Howard adds: “Through gaining and maintaining accreditation status, we have realised the importance of planning for transition, providing continuity and consistency, and how to implement positive behavioural strategies for people with autism.”
Strothers Road supports four people, including two people with needs on the autism spectrum. Home manager, Mairi Turner, explains the benefits their accreditation has brought: “Achieving accreditation has helped to reinforce the existing good practice in our home and makes a great statement about the standards we deliver. I am hugely proud of my team for all of their hard work and commitment in achieving this success.”
Vocational Support manager
Howard Rice and Matthew Evans, who has autism and is supported to work at Next
The Strothers Road team proudly show off their Accreditation certificate
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