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Click Start Introduction and Summary

The Click Start project aims to build a network of new accessible websites across ten North-East London boroughs, for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities to help meet the challenges of transition to adult life in the community.

Ten East London Boroughs have been invited to take part in Click Start; Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Greenwich, Hackney, Havering*, Lewisham, Newham*, Redbridge, The City, and Tower Hamlets* (*Tower Hamlets, Newham and Havering were pilot boroughs).

Each borough will be provided with training and support to make its own ‘easy read' transition website to present all the required local information on transition for people with learning disabilities in an accessible multimedia format. Click Start will provide the tools, training and support to enable everyone working in the field to create “easy read” and highly accessible content by using photos, sound and video clips alongside simple text. The online software, training in website development and support to develop the network are all free as project is funded by The Learning and Skills Council, the central government body aiming to make England better skilled and more competitive.

How the project works!
As we've said above, by taking part in the Click Start project, each Borough will create their own transition website – we call this the Borough ‘Portal'. The portal is edited by the Borough Editorial team, which is made up of staff from various departments in each Borough as well a number of service users. The Portal content is made up of and linked to smaller, individual websites – named ‘Wiki sites'. The Borough Editorial team will therefore recruit frontline organisations to work with their service users to develop their own accessible wiki sites for the Borough portal website.

One of the main aims of Click Start is to enable organisations to directly involve people with learning disabilities, so that young people can be actively involved in helping each other with information, guidance and advice on issues like independent living, finding employment and further education in the community.

Overall, Click Start provides the opportunity for every borough to develop its own transition information for people with learning disabilities. This is an exciting and innovative project, it will ensure a significant improvement is made in the creation and provision of accessible information on transition for people with learning disabilities.

http://www.clickstart.org.uk/

Link: http://thebigtree.org/clickstart/

Date posted: Monday, 8 February 2010