Accessibility Statement

Last updated: 01/09/2024

Our Commitment

Diverse Social Care Provision is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Measures to Support Accessibility

Diverse Social Care Provision takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of our website:

  • Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.
  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
  • Assign clear accessibility targets and responsibilities.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

Conformance Status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Our website strives to be conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of our website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers:

We try to respond to feedback within 5 business days.

Technical Specifications

Accessibility of our website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Assessment Approach

Diverse Social Care Provision assesses the accessibility of our website by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation
  • External evaluation

Date

This statement was created on [Insert Date] using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.

Additional Considerations

Our Services

Diverse Social Care Provision offers the following services, which we strive to make accessible to all users:

  • Semi-Independent Accommodation
  • Appropriate Adult Service
  • Independent Social Work Assessments & Services
  • Family Contact Supervision
  • Immigration Social Work Assessments
  • Training and Consultancy

Limitations and Alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of our website, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for our website:

  • PDFs may not be fully accessible: We are working to replace PDFs with accessible HTML pages. In the meantime, please contact us for any information you need that is contained in a PDF.
  • Videos may not have captions: We are working on adding captions to all our videos. If you need access to the information in a video, please contact us for a transcript.

Compliance Status

We are committed to making our website compliant with the Accessibility Regulations 2018. Our website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed above.

We are currently conducting a comprehensive audit of our website to identify any areas that may not meet accessibility standards. We will update this statement when the audit is completed, and detail our plan to address any issues identified.

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please contact us using the details above. We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 5 working days.