Ann Macfarlane OBE

Ann Macfarlane OBE

Sunday 16 March 2014

Yoghourt: One for all or all for one

Yoghurt: All for one or one for all!
A true encounter

Scout Master:  'Tonight when the scouts met I bought them all chocolate bars. Then I remembered one lad wouldn't be able to eat his because he's disabled and food has to be liquidised. I bought him a yoghurt. I was so pleased I thought of it as I would have hated to leave him out.'

Response:  'That was kind of you but perhaps next time you could buy all the scouts a yoghurt.'



Ann Macfarlane OBE

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About Ann MacfarlaneOBE

Ann became a trustee at the Social Care Institute for Excellence in 2007. Ann, a wheelchair user, is a leading Disability Rights and Equalities Consultant, focusing on health and social care as it affects disabled adults, irrespective of age. She specialises in Independent Living, Direct Payments and Personal Budgets, and has been involved in the UK disabled peoples' movement for many years. Ann is an 'expert by experience' for the Care Quality Commission, and works with the Department of Health, the NHS and other national Organisations. She is recognised in her community and is a member of the Local Authority's Safeguarding Board, chair of their Users Adults at Risk Group and the local Patient-Wide Forum. She is Patron of Kingston Centre for Independent Living. Ann has lectured worldwide on health and social care. Ann received her MBE in 1992, and an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2009. She was also awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship. Ann has particular responsibilities in her local United Reformed Church and enjoys photography, travel, art and gardens.