1. Best Practice Guidelines
Gateshead People
Peer Education Team
November 2017

2. We are the Peer Education Team
We are experts by experience
We have been telling people
about cancer
Why it is important to go for screenings
What to expect when you go
for screenings
Helping make health information easier to understand

3. Professionals are asking more and more people with learning disabilities to help them make services better
This is very important but it needs to be done well
If not done in the right way people may feel used and devalued

4. The Learning Disability Network asked us to develop Best Practice Guidelines and a Checklist
so they can involve people well in their projects

5. We talked to lots of groups across the region
“I have a laugh, joining in, being part of the group”.
“We want to be treated equally, like human beings”.
“I talk more in this group. I’m comfortable to be myself.”
“Talk to us, not our support workers or Mam’s”.
We talked to lots of people across the region
They told us what was good about being involved in groups and projects
We talked about bad meetings and good meetings
We talked to lots of groups across the region

6. Real life experiences

7. Remember to give a contact name

8. Remember to make information easy read

9. Involve people in writing the script

10. Check the bus times

11. Use the Best Practice Check List

12. INDEPENDENCE VIDEO