The Communications Access Symbol is an initiative developed in partnership by charities and organisations that share a vision to improve the lives of people with communication difficulties.
The communication access symbol scheme is led by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and was coproduced with a number of stakeholders including the NNPCF.
A completely free training package is available to any individual or business that wishes to sign up to the symbol.
Businesses that have already signed up to the symbol include Job Centres, University of East Anglia, various Citizen’s Advice Bureau locations and some NHS trusts among many others!
We are delighted to say the NNPCF have recently been accredited with a number of our Steering Group, Management Team and National Representative Team completing the training.
We would encourage you to take a look at the scheme and sign up to the training too.
Sharing the scheme with your contacts would be especially helpful. If more individuals and organisations become accredited it would really help people with communication needs.
If you would like to mention it to your Local Authorities and ICS’s please feel free to do so, and encourage their sign up as well!