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This policy takes account of the Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (England) Regulations (2013) and the National Minimum Standards for Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (Department for Education).

This policy has been approved by the OMH Board of Trustees

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Policy Statement

OMH supports inclusion of holiday makers and volunteers regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religious belief or any other potential discriminatory or protected characteristic.

Inclusion for OMH means:

• Promoting access and inclusion for young adults and children with disabilities

• Promoting care and voluntary work

• Improving public attitudes to learning and physical disability

• Striving to create a holiday which provides for the needs of young adults and children with a range of disabilities and, where possible, to overcome barriers which may have service users from other residential holidays.

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• Cultivating an organisation in which equality of opportunity is culturally embedded

Procedures

These inclusion aims are fulfilled by the following endeavours:

• Not discriminating between candidate holiday makers or volunteers on the basis of characteristics such as race, gender, sexuality or religion
• Making places available for any child or young adult who we feel may benefit from our activities
• Providing suitably medically trained volunteers for those holiday makers with complex needs, to ensure that they can access the holiday
• Providing a dedicated, experienced one-to-one carer for holiday makers who exhibit extensive risk behaviours, to ensure that they can access the holiday
• Striving to improve our service and facilities, through providing a wide and varied program of activities which match the range of holiday makers’ needs on the holiday.
• Recruiting young people as volunteers who can learn from the experience and enter their adult lives with a positive attitude to disability

Including a number of trips to public places in the holiday timetable, during which we aim to provide positive examples of voluntary work, care and disability to the public.