Has anyone had any experience supporting a wheelchair user to complete D of E? Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Sam , regrettably, I have no advice nor tips as none of our children have ever completed it! I'm certain your LA will have a DoE rep....
Part of our Change Funding- DfE, our little team is actually developing a project/offer (LISO Local inclusion Support offer- Barnet) for volunteering opportunities for our Sec school wheelchair users. We have delivered online group discussions with or yp and have had a mini conference with an amazing guy from WheelPower. We are hoping to be able to have an altogether offer from next academic year...
We have encountered many challenges but have reached out to the DoE to get some tips and have also approached many local organisations; the issues we encounter are to do with accessibility, mostly accessible toilets. Once we have a completed programme i will share it in this platform. If anyone has any ideas, we are open to them too.
Good luck, hopefully colleagues will have many wonderful ideas.
Thnaks
Thanks, Gina, I thought this might be the case. I'll let you know if I get anywhere with it.
Hi Sam we had a wheelchair user obtain her gold DofE in Warwickshire. I’ll see if we still have her contact details as her own input will be invaluable. Leave it with me.
Thank you, Jane - that's fantastic!
