Improving the learning
outcomes of educationally disadvantaged school/college students,
including students with disabilities, is a major PASTEL priority.
Everything PASTEL
does is driven by the following general principles:
A
commitment to make a significant difference to disadvantaged
individuals, groups and communities.
A
commitment to respect diversity in our clients and encouragement
of diversity in our stakeholders.
A
commitment to open up opportunities for personal and social
development, leading clients to enjoy making more of adult
life and become productive citizens.
A
commitment to the belief that everyone is entitled to fulfil
their potential and have their achievements recognised and
celebrated.
A
commitment to social enterprise.
PASTEL fervently believes
that someone with a learning disability can fully develop
personally, and make a positive contribution to local life,
if they get the appropriate transition training and learning
support.
To
make this happen PASTEL also believes that in
working with and supporting people with learning disabilities,
there are certain basic values that sum up everything we believe
and guide everything we do:
Empowerment:
A shift in the
balance of power so that people with learning disabilities
can make their own decisions and take control of their own
lives.
Choice:
Having access to
a wide range of options, deciding for yourself which ones
suit you best and having your choice respected.
Dignity:
Recognising and
valuing people with learning disabilities as equal human beings
with the same rights as every other citizen.
Individuality:
Responding to and
working with each person as an individual with his or her
own unique personality, perspective and strengths.
Privacy:
Ensuring that
everyone is treated at all times in a manner which safeguards
their dignity and does not expose them to any situations which
might humiliate or embarrass them or cause them personal or
emotional discomfort.
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a copy of the PASTEL leaflet, please
click here.
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