Supporting Quality Services Enabling Better Lives
Improving the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through evidence-based, person-centred support.
Photograph by Gary Radler Photography
About Us
Beadle-Brown Consulting is a small team of associate consultants who have worked together in one way or another for at least 20 years. We are collectively and individually driven by the desire for an inclusive, compassionate and accessible society for all but particularly for the most isolated and excluded from research, from education and from society as a whole – those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We work with a human rights perspective and with positive and person-centred approaches at all level of the system.
We work with you to promote
RESPECT
AUTONOMY
CONNECTION
for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families
Meet the team
Our consultants
All of our consultants have at some point in our career worked with and been influenced by the leadership, mentorship or teaching of the late Professor Jim Mansell - one of the pioneers of community-based services in the UK and one of the originators of person-centred active support and the concept of practice leadership in the context of disability services.
We all have at least 20 years experience working locally, nationally and internationally with individuals with disability, their families, their schools and services, their service providers, and their local and national governments.
Why we do what we do
Over 1 million people with disabilities in Europe still live in institutions.
People with intellectual disabilities spend on average only 40% of their time actively engaged. They have no contact from others 75% of the time.
Only 5% of people with intellectual disabilities in the UK have a paid job. 86% would like a paid job.
What we do - our services
Training
Person-centred Active Support, Practice Leadership and more….
Strategic planning
Supporting senior leadership in the design and implementation of high quality, person-centred services
Evaluation
Independent assessment of the quality of services and support
Research
Providing the evidence-base for practice - supporting and conducting research globally
Our resources
Check out our free introductory booklet on person-centred active support, our You Tube channel and links to other useful resources.
