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Ideas about working with politicians & officials Rebecca Irvine

Let’s talk about your experience How do you work with politicians? How do you work with civil servants? How do you work with government committees? How do you work with lobby groups? Other agencies?

Tips for a Successful Meeting with your Member of Parliament (I) Be prepared Share your story Stay on your point Know both sides of the story

Tips for a Successful Meeting with your Member of Parliament (II) Don’t argue Make clear what you want to happen Follow up Tell others

Think about how you communicate Be polite Stay calm and focused Be clear in what you want Listen to what others say Say if you do not understand

Let’s keep learning from each other This is only the start… Let’s keep learning from each other

Working together to achieve change

Michigan State University Queen’s University Belfast

UN: 'Grave' disability rights violations under UK reforms Current Events UN: 'Grave' disability rights violations under UK reforms “While the government continues to improve and build on the support available to disabled people, it stands by and is proud of its record.”

Current Events

Projects Related to Political Participation Mencap’s campaigns on political participation The All-Party Group on Learning Disability Recent Research I don’t want to spend a lot of time on each project but just to make you aware of them. Please let me know if you are interested to learn more on any of these projects.

All of their services support people to live life as they choose. Mencap works in partnership with people with a learning disability and their families and carers. All of their services support people to live life as they choose. This includes campaigning for the changes that people with a learning disability want. Campaigns Manager in NI -speaking in front of Committees, preparing policy documents & organizing others to campaign and lobby

Get my vote aimed to: Help people get involved Make information about voting more accessible Show best practice for accessible communication Make politicians more aware of learning disability Results: Political party manifestos were made available in Easy-read More people with a learning disability registered to vote than ever before Over 130 MPs signed a motion in Westminster to support making politics more accessible Approximately 33% of people with a learning disability voted compared to 16% in the previous election

Get my vote We asked candidates in the election to sign and return a postcard committing to: Equal citizenship for disabled people Early childhood intervention and support for children to grow, develop and have fun Equal access to health care, employment, lifelong learning opportunities, and housing More and better support for families An end to bullying and hate crime

Access to Democracy event at the NI Assembly, February 2010 Self-advocates spoke about their involvement with politics We talked about how to vote and people could register to vote People could talk to representatives from all of the political parties

Changing Places in Parliament

All-Party Group on Learning Disability Aims: to promote better understanding of the issues facing people with a learning disability and their families influence policy, legislation and service developments to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and their families in Northern Ireland Identified members through monitoring questions etc. All 7 parties Social media ‘bullying’ 6 organizations + 7 parties + 2 independent self-advocates + 2 independent parents 4 themed meetings per year Standing room only (open to public) Selected as most successful APG

Research Projects Monitoring the Implementation of the CRPD (Article 29 available) Experiences of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Influencing Public Policy Comparative International Disability Policy

www.right-to-decide.eu Models of support for decision-making; Living in the community for people with complex needs; Participation of children in decision-making; and Analysis of structural support for self-advocacy in Europe

Resources available from Inclusion International http://inclusion-international.org/category/programme/accessing-the-ballot-box/ My Voice Matters!: Easy-Read Guide on Inclusive Civic Engagement Inclusive Civic Engagement: Information Toolkit for Families and People with Intellectual Disabilities Accessing the Ballot Box: An information Toolkit for Governments

Additional Resources Inclusion-Europe.eu Self-advocacy.eu peer-support.eu https://www.google.be/search?q=partners+for+better+policies+a+manual+mainstreaming&rlz=1C1LENP_enUS544US544&oq=partners+for+better+&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0l2j69i60j0.3606j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 http://www.tbcoalition.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Tips-for-a-successful-meeting-with-your-MP.pdf https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_report_on_right_to_vote_as_easy_to_read.pdf http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Disability/SubmissionThematicStudy/OHCHR_study_ETR_easyversion.pdf Access to and Accessibility of Citizenship and Political Participation of People with Disabilities in Europe: Introduction to Two Related 2013 ANED Reports https://www.c-q-l.org/resource-library/resource-library/all-resources/self-advocacy-and-leadership https://bookshop.europa.eu/en/bundles/easy-reading-about-the-eu-cbj5eep2IxilAAAAEuIFphS1Kn/ https://europa.eu/european-union/documents-publications_en https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en

Rebecca Irvine rirvine@msu.edu @rshea_irvine /rebecca.shea.irvine

Building on Experience What are the different ways you can influence decisions about policies or programmes? What is your issue? Who can make the changes you want? What information do they want or need? How do they want that information?

What skills do you think are important in influencing political decisions?

Learning to work together How can we learn from one another? How do we continue to build relationships?

Working Together to Achieve Change Sharing your stories at national level is very important We can learn that other countries may have similar issues (think peer-training) They may also have solutions We can work together to make our voices louder at the European level