Resources

Criminal Justice System - Disability Hate Crime Resources

CPS Disability Hate Crime Leaflet introducing the CPS policy for prosecuting cases of disability hate crime. Available as Adobe Acrobat PDF. 

CPS Disability Hate Crime Easy Read Leaflet introducing the CPS policy for prosecuting cases of disability hate crime - easy read version. Available as Adobe Acrobat PDF.  

Policy for prosecuting cases of disability hate crime. This policy statement explains the way that the Crown Prosecution Service deals with cases of disability hate crime. Available as Adobe Acrobat PDF  

Policy for prosecuting cases of disability hate crime Easy Read - easy read versions. Available as Adobe Acrobat PDF.  

Guidance on prosecuting cases of disability hate crime. This guidance document gives more detail about some of the key areas of the policy statement to assist prosecutors when they deal with this type of crime. Available as Adobe Acrobat PDF.

Additional Guidance on prosecuting cases of disability hate crime. (Opens the CPS website) This guidance document gives more detail about the distinction between vulnerability and hostility in the context of Disability Hate Crime to assist prosecutors when they deal with this type of crime.

ACPO Statistics 

The Association of Chief Police Officers of England Wales and Northern Ireland have published their latest hate crime statistics, you can download the document here.

Training Resources

Equal Access to Justice Workshops

The project’s main aim is to support and encourage people to get Equal Access to Justice in the Criminal Justice System by delivering informal workshops to groups of people with Learning Difficulties and their carers in order to raise awareness and ultimately improve wellbeing. 

The workshops are peer-lead and delivered by our project workers who themselves have Learning Difficulties; they are supported at each session by our project support workers. 

View our Equal Access to Justice Overview·

Training Services

VOICE UK's training is uniquely informed by years of experience of working with people with learning disabilities who've been abused or experienced crime, as well as their families, carers and professional workers. We offer a range of training courses, with a strong emphasis on giving participants, working in health, police, social services, education, criminal justice system and the voluntary sector, a positive, practical approach to adult protection. We are also able to work with your organisation to define and deliver bespoke training to match your organisations needs. There are no excuses for not knowing the law. There are no excuses for not knowing what to do when abuse or crime has been committed against a person with learning disabilities.

To find out more about Voice UK and our training courses visit our main website here (opens new window)

Inclusion North and Coast-2-Coast have put together "The Stop Hate Crime Training Pack & Video". This guide is"for everyone who may, in the course of their work, come across people with learning disabilities who are, or may become, victims of hate crime".

The Good Practice Guide for Learning Disability Hate Crime is all about disability hate crime.  What it is, what to do about it, promoting understanding, raising awareness, and so on.

The Stop Hate Crime Learning Together Training Pack is a training pack to help people with learning disabilities put on training events about disability hate crime.

The Training Pack Handouts contains all the handouts you'll need to run a session.

Watch the STOP HATE CRIME Video