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Agnes Fletcher

Agnes FletcherAgnes is a freelance consultant and trainer. She has supported the development of single equality schemes and delivered equality training covering age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation and human rights.

Before going freelance in October 2007, Agnes worked on disability issues for 16 years and was Director of Policy and Communications at the Disability Rights Commission (DRC).

Agnes has delivered training on disability and communications to government communicators at the Department for Work and Pensions, the Home Office, the Department of Transport, the Department for Communities and Local Government and to a wider range of public sector communication professionals via the Government Communications Network.

Agnes has extensive knowledge of inclusive communications, disability policy and mental health issues, having been lead officer for the DRC’s Mental Health Action Group. Agnes also has experience of communicating with diverse groups of disabled people, including those who do not identify themselves as disabled, BSL level 1 and a good understanding of Deaf language and culture.

Agnes’s current and previous clients include:

  • British Council Serbia
  • Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
  • East of England Development Agency (for Goss Consulting Ltd – GCL)
  • Employers’ Forum on Disability
  • National End of Life Care Programme (for Furner Communications)
  • Equality and Human Rights Commission (for GCL)
  • Essex Coalition of Disabled People
  • General Osteopathic Council
  • Leonard Cheshire
  • London Development Agency
  • National Institute for Clinical Excellence (for GCL)
  • National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (for GCL)
  • Nursing and Midwifery Council
  • Office for Disability Issues
  • Opinion Leader Research
  • Pollination Campaigns
  • Q Well Being
  • RADAR
  • RNIB
  • Urban Design London (for Equality Works – EW)
  • Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust (for EW)

Agnes is a trustee of Shape Arts and a member of the British Government’s Disability Employment Advisory Committee.