About Us
Beadle-Brown Consulting is driven by a strong desire for a welcoming, compassionate and supportive society for all.
We are passionate about improving the quality of life of children and adults with disabilities and their families across the world, working in partnership with people with disabilities and other actors and agencies in the system to achieve this.
Our overarching aim is to contribute to the development of service and support systems that consistently implement the following principles:
Holistic
whole person, whole life, whole family (where applicable)
Outcomes focused
improving and sustaining quality of life
Person-centred, Positive and Proactive
seeing people as individuals with skills, interests and a contribution to make.
Equitable, empathetic and empowering
high quality services, that support maximum independence and self-determination for all.
Seamless and Sustainable
coordinated support, smooth transitions and designed to last over time
Good Support for All
We work with a framework that we simply refer to as “Good Support for All”. We wanted to summarise what we have learnt over the years is needed to support everyone, including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities to experience respect, connection and autonomy. The seven elements of the framework are set out in this diagram and you can read more by clicking on the button below.
We believe that, although it might feel like “common sense”, good support requires a “right” way of thinking and being (person-centred, warm, respectful), technical skill and consistency across time. When you want more than one person to do work in this way, it requires leadership and commitment throughout an organization, even a disability/service system.
But change does not come just by “telling” people to think or behave differently. We draw in our approach on Confucius’ observation:
We HEAR and we FORGET
We SEE and we REMEMBER
We DO And we UNDERSTAND.
We believe strongly that experiential learning is essential. In order to change the views, attitudes, expectations and behaviour of both our social care/disability workforce and the community more generally, people with disabilities need to be present in, participating in and contributing to the local community (where people without disability are present, participating and contributing) with whatever support they need to ensure this is a success. Support does not always equate to staff – it can include natural supports – family, community organisations, volunteers – and even technology.
But none of us spend ALL our time out and about in the community or doing social and leisure activities or even work. For most of us a substantial part of our day is spent looking after our own physical, medical and mental health needs, our home, our family and sometimes even our friends. Being as involved and independent as possible in all aspects of our life is key to our personal development and emotional well-being.
As such we work with individuals and organisations who provide support to children and adults with disability in any capacity and setting to have the skills and motivation they need to provide Respect, Autonomy and Connection through good support for all. We do this using training and implementation methods that support experiential learning, ongoing reflection and continual development.
This also translates into our research, which frequently focuses on both the impact of good support and the factors that lead to its successful implementation and maintenance over time.