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• The greatest use of life is to spend it for
  something that will outlast it
• The legacy of the Natspec and LSIS partnership
• Viv Berkeley, Programme Development Manager

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Love us or loath us..

• Its about making a difference
• Remembering who we are here to serve
• And that ..
• Life does go on without you
• What is important is what you leave
• behind

3
ISCs have been very busy.
4
Learner voice / learner leadership

• Learners asked what they thought of their
  learning support
• Deaf learners as trainers organised and ran a
  national conference
• Learners on a panel at the two national
  conferences for the learning support projects
• Creative Listening PMLD learners
• Giving learners a voice with assistive technology
• Learners making video for staff training around
  safeguarding

Learners are included in decision making about
their support, rather than being told about it.
5
Heart of Deafness Social Enterprise

• An innovative enterprise that challenges social
  and economic barriers faced by Deaf people
  through supporting Deaf people to access
  training, apprenticeships and employment and
  through the provision of Deaf Awareness Training
  and Equal Access advice and guidance to education
  providers, employers and policy makers.

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Enhancing Learning Support

• Bigging up the role of learning support staff
• A raft of resources
• The Dual Role
• The LSA reference group

7
RARPA

• Good example yet again of Natspec twinning
  ISCs and GFEs
• Good example of value for money
• The work will continue post LSIS 3 seminars and
  a high level policy seminar

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Improvement projects

• PRD groups
• EDI monies
• Green Paper money
• FI funding
• Organisational Health Checks

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Why did the partnership work?

• Having a shared vision
• Working from the same values base
• Committed
• Not afraid to innovate
• Being self directed
• Being willing to share

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And my toast to you..

• Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The
  rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the
  square holes. The ones who see things
  differently. They're not fond of rules. And they
  have no respect for the status quo. You can quote
  them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
  About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
  Because they change things. They push the human
  race forward. And while some may see them as the
  crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who
  are crazy enough to think they can change the
  world, are the ones who do. ? Apple Inc.