Active Support

ARC (Association for Real Change) supports service providers across the whole of the UK to promote the independence, inclusion, individuality and well-being of people with learning disabilities. This is through learning disability training, consultancy services, QCF qualifications, projects, publications, disclosure service and our information service.

ARC works in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Comments from Services that have already been supported through Active Support:

• "I’ve seen the dramatic changes it can have on people’s lives. One lady in her 60’s is now able to do things that she’s not had the opportunity to do before, I think it's absolutely marvellous. I can see how it improves her self-esteem and allows her to participate, as she should be."

  Manager

• "Before we were doing everything but now we are involving everyone in their breakfast, getting the dishes out and generally helping with running the house; like helping to load the washing machine, putting the washing in the dryer. Now people want to do things - we don’t have to ask. Instead of sitting around when you’re preparing lunch people are involved with preparing the food. People enjoy doing it. They are not so bored."

  Support Worker

• "I believe in Active Support very strongly. I think it’s true to say that the people who find life most difficult are the people you do less with. The more able a person the more you’ll do with them. Active Support has helped us to see that with a little more help, those less able people can become more independent and do more for themselves. I think there are many ways we can look after people – we can care for them or we can support them. A person who isn’t engaged is actually just sitting there, sitting there doing nothing is boring."

  Manager