Easy read documents
We produce some documents in an easy read format for people with learning disabilities.
These documents are:
Adult social care
- Adults experience – our commitment to you (PDF, 429.5 KB)
- Equality and Human Rights Policy and Objectives (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) (PDF, 426.1 KB)
- Kent and Medway Domestic Abuse Strategy 2020 (PDF, 813.3 KB)
- Kent Pathways Service guide (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Kent and Medway Joint Transformation Planning Template (PDF, 818.0 KB)
- Making a complaint, comment or compliment about adult social care (PDF, 562.2 KB)
- Mental Capacity Act - Care England
- Shared Lives user guide (PDF, 676.3 KB)
- Your life, your wellbeing (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Your life, your wellbeing executive summary (PDF, 546.6 KB)
Direct payments
- Direct payments checklist (PDF, 301.7 KB)
- Direct payments for carers factsheet (PDF, 265.0 KB)
- Direct payments for carers factsheet - managing your direct payment records (PDF, 415.1 KB)
- Direct payments - employer relationship (PDF, 530.4 KB)
- Direct payments factsheet (PDF, 448.1 KB)
- Direct payments – employing PAs checklist (PDF, 412.4 KB)
Privacy notices
- Adult Social Care and Health privacy notice (PDF, 654.5 KB)
- Early Help including Youth Justice privacy notice (PDF, 846.2 KB)
- Kara project privacy notice (PDF, 627.8 KB)
Safeguarding
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards - a guide for relevant person's representatives (PDF, 1009.6 KB)
- How to protect yourself from abuse guide for the public (PDF, 964.6 KB)
- Safeguarding adults experience feedback form (PDF, 497.8 KB)
- Safeguarding adults - a guide to what may happen when a safeguarding adult concern is reported (PDF, 549.7 KB)
Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- Access to Work - gov.uk
- Accessible information standard - Mencap
- Becoming an adult booklet (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Changes to SEND support (for young people) - Mencap
- Changes to SEND support (for parents/carers) - Mencap
- Early Years LIFT (parent guide) (PDF, 109.6 KB)
- Education health and care needs assessments - IASK
- Education health and care plans - IASK
- Finding work support - Mencap
- Going to the dentist
- High needs funding for schools booklet (PDF, 342.0 KB)
- High needs funding for college booklet (PDF, 261.7 KB)
- Keeping what you say private - IASK
- Mental Capacity Act - Care England
- NHS Continuing Care
- Preparing for adulthood – Year 9 onwards - IASK
- Preparing for adulthood protocol (PDF, 3.0 MB)
- SEND strategy 2021 to 2024 (PDF, 327.1 KB)
- Types of special educational needs support in college (PDF, 415.9 KB)
- Understanding sexuality and relationships - Mencap
- What happens when your child visits a hospital - Kent CHT
- Visiting a hospital if I have coronavirus - Mencap
Information, Advice and Support Kent (IASK)
- About Information, Advice and Support Kent (PDF, 315.4 KB)
- Disciplinary/exclusions in college (PDF, 529.0 KB)
- Finding out about support near you (PDF, 459.8 KB)
- Finding out what support you need (PDF, 409.0 KB)
- Keeping what you say private (PDF, 321.1 KB)
- Personal budgets (PDF, 429.0 KB)
- What if I do not agree with the decision? (PDF, 375.1 KB)
Contact us
If you need information in easy read format that isn't listed here please email alternativeformats@kent.gov.uk or call 03000 42 15 53.