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Faces Survey |
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Changing Faces aims
to support and represent the interests of people of all ages who have
disfigurements. To do this well they need to find out what life is really like
for people with facial (and body) disfigurements and have circulated a number of
organisations for assistance with their latest research. |
Changing Faces
is calling on people to take part in this survey, the biggest
that has ever been carried out in the UK to find out what it is really like for
people with disfigurements at secondary school and at work. Your views will give
the charity the evidence it needs to make teachers, employers and policy makers
in the government aware of the way that secondary school pupils and employees
with disfigurements are treated.
Changing
Faces is currently conducting some important research on people with
disfigurements or with conditions that affects the way they look, in employment
and education via a questionnaire, and we would be grateful for your help. We
are seeking the opinions and experiences of people with any kind of
disfigurement to any part of the body. The results will help us to develop our
work in schools and employment, representing the needs of people with
disfigurements, especially in our policy work to campaign for better provision.
The more responses we get, the more useful and effective the resulting findings
will be.
Schools
We would like to reach children and young people with a
difference or disfigurement between 11 and 20 years, to find out from them how
they experience (or have experienced) their school or sixth form college. The
results will help us to ensure that teachers and school staff gain the skills
and expertise they need, both to support individual pupils effectively, and also
to ensure that all children and
young people in secondary schools learn about difference and disfigurement in
ways which are positive for everyone.
Employment
We want to hear from anyone who is of working age or has worked
in the past to find out from them their experiences in getting work, from a
Saturday job to being a manager, whether employed or unemployed. If they are
unemployed, we would be interested to find out why not. The findings will enable
us to develop appropriate support for individuals to have the confidence to
achieve their career goals, and to offer advice to employers on developing best
practice and encourage them to employ more people with disfigurements.
You can help by
encouraging your members to complete the questionnaire.
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