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Karten Centres and their contribution to ISCs. title. Session objectives. Understanding of the Karten CTEC Centres’ model Understanding of the background to the Network Share how we can all benefit from the Network Develop a plan for future actions. What are Karten Centres?.

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  1. Karten Centres and their contribution to ISCs title

  2. Session objectives • Understanding of the Karten CTEC Centres’ model • Understanding of the background to the Network • Share how we can all benefit from the Network • Develop a plan for future actions

  3. What are Karten Centres? • IT Centres for disabled people in host organisations • 113 in UK and Israel • Capital costs funded through the Ian Karten Charitable Trust • No model of what a centre ought to be • Easy application process • No focus on a specific disability or sector

  4. Where are the centres? • In General FE colleges • In ISCs • In Day Services • In training provision • In residential provision • In homes for older people • In hospitals

  5. What do the Centres do? • Traditionally, a bank of PCs with assistive technology, both hardware and software • Now – limited only by the imagination of the hosts • Office skills • Social enterprises • Multi-media centres • Enablers of self employment

  6. Background to the Karten Network • Ian needed a scholarship to complete his degree and vowed to give back what he could – 3000 times over • Saw a young man using chin switches and an on-screen keyboard to write a letter independently • Fired his imagination as to the enabling impact of technology

  7. The transformational effect of capital investment • A source of funding that fills a big gap, enabling projects to get underway and prove themselves • Fills the shortfall in government funding

  8. Impact of working across sectors • Different sectors have different strengths and different challenges • We tend to work within our own sectors • The Karten Network gives the opportunity to share best practice across sector boundaries

  9. Benefits for those without a CTEC Centre • Annual conference: Tuesday 23rd October, QAC • Electronic newsletter • Potential for further funding in the future • Information resource

  10. How to take this forward • Research potential • Work placements • Transition

  11. Thank you! Ceri Hibbert Network Development Manager ceri@karten-network.org.uk 07530 702134

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