MP Julia Goldsworthy officially opens new Scope accommodation for disabled people
18 September 2008
Residents at Rosewarne, Scope’s new adult living service in Camborne, were delighted to welcome Camborne and Falmouth MP Julia Goldsworthy to officially open their new home this week.
The service has been created as part of the transformation of the historic Gladys Holman House site. The service used to be housed in the Gladys Holman House listed building itself but this was no longer appropriate for the needs of residents, with inadequate access and lifts and narrow corridors.
The new Rosewarne service boasts state-of-the-art technological advances allowing residents to have great control over their lives from being easily able to open and close doors and curtains, to being able to operate the air-conditioning. They also have the benefit of being much closer to their local community, being only a couple of minutes from the town centre and part of a residential street.
The development of the service involved residents in every step of the detail and they recorded their feelings and reflections upon the changes through video diaries, photographs and creative work. Scope is committed to “co-producing” its services, campaigns and activities which means all the work it does is led by the views and needs of disabled people. The way the Rosewarne service was developed will be used as a model for similar projects in the future.
John Brett, who lived in Gladys Holman House for many years and who was a part of the project team overseeing the new development, said:
“I’m extremely happy now that we have all moved into Rosewarne. I think it has been worth the wait to make sure that the new accommodation is state-of-the-art and all our input into its construction has been taken into account.”
Service manager Sue Pegler comments:
“Our new service in Camborne is a great example of how positive changes can be made to the lives of disabled people. By providing the appropriate support, in the form of a new and accessible building, trained staff and technology, our residents are experiencing a whole new level of independence and freedom.”
Sharon Collins, Scope’s Director of Services, adds:
“At Scope we are very proud of our new service at Rosewarne and the extent to which the disabled people who were going to live there were involved at every stage. We are committed to ensuring that all our services are led by the needs and wishes of disabled people and will use the work in Camborne as a model for how we deliver projects in other parts of the country.”
Notes to the Editor:
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- Scope is a disability organisation whose focus is people with cerebral palsy.
- Scope’s mission is to drive the change to make our society the first where disabled people achieve equality. Our Time to Get Equal campaign aims to build a mass movement of one million people to help achieve this.
- Co-production is where non-disabled people use their skills, expertise and resources to work in alliance with disabled people to promote disabled people's human rights and facilitate equality for disabled people. Scope is committed to delivering services that disabled people choose to use and which enable disabled people to have choice and control over their lives.
- The new service has been constructed by local firm Highgrove Homes. In addition to building the new service, Highgrove Homes will be creating a range of new build and conversion properties on the remainder of the Gladys Holman House site, including one and two bedroom apartments in the old House itself. Phase one of this project is complete and phase two, including the conversion of the old House, will start shortly.
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