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The Seminar celebrates the official signup of Birmingham Children’s Hospital to the National Include Me TOO Charter of Rights for Disabled Children and Young People. The Hospital is the first Children’s Hospital in the UK endorsing their support to the Charter and it’s vision of a Right Respecting Culture through promoting and enhancing the Rights of Disabled Children and Young People.

Friday 21st May 2010,  9.30am to 3.15pm
Education Centre, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham
B4 6NH
The seminar aims:

To provide an opportunity to share a vision of how Children’s Hospitals can implement the National Include Me TOO Charter of Rights for Disabled Children and Young People. Through the implementation of the ten standards ensuring disabled children and young people are involved, represented (representing themselves) and are able to participate in their care; and support the hospital to meet their needs through a Rights Respecting framework.

The Seminar will provide a insight to how this approach can be applied during impact assessments, inclusion and implementation of DDA, Convention on the Rights of Disabled People , Include Me TOO Charter in conjunction with the UNCRC and Every Child Matters framework.

For more information, contact Janet Cooper on 01902 711604 or Suj Sabharwaal on 01902 399888 alternatively you can email  im2@includemetoo.org.uk
Closing date for booking places is Wednesday 12th May 2010.

To book a place go to the Include Me Too website.