Easy Read version Your Support Worker Visit

 

👩 Support worker

Your support worker will come to your home.

📅 Day: Monday

⏰ Time: 10:00 in the morning

They will help you with:

🧹 Cleaning
🛒 Shopping
📄 Paperwork

If you have questions, please call us.

☎ Phone: __________

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Why the original writing might not be clear

Common problems include:

• sentences that are too long
• formal words (property, assistance, service provision)
• too much information in one paragraph
• pictures not matching the text clearly
• small or crowded text

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Easy Read writing rules staff should follow

1. One idea per sentence

2. Short sentences (8–12 words)

3. Simple everyday words

4. Pictures next to the text

5. Large clear font

6. Lots of space on the page

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Example sentence fix

Not Easy Read:
“Your allocated care worker will attend the premises.”

Easy Read:
Your support worker will come to your home.

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Good practice tip for services

Even organisations that use symbols (like Widgit or similar) sometimes forget that Easy Read is about the words as well as the pictures.

Pictures help — but clear writing is the most important part.