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Guest
speaker at Scottish Canine Consultative Council
Dogs
for the Disabled chief executive, Peter Gorbing, was guest speaker
at the Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Canine Consultative
Council held in Larkhall, Lanarkshire recently.
The Scottish Canine Consultative Council brings together people
from across Scotland who are concerned with a wide range of
projects where dogs are involved.
In his presentation, Mr Gorbing spoke about the work of Dogs
for the Disabled and charitys future plans. So far we have trained
over 230 dogs to help disabled people improve their quality
of life. To help us train even more dogs we have made a commitment
to our staff training programme. This work has already been
recognised with an Investors in People award but more importantly
it is helping us to broaden our skills base.
As a member of the board of Assistance Dogs International (ADI),
Peter was also able to tell members of the Council about the
development of an assistance dog programme worldwide. ADI is
working hard to create International standards for training
and development. There are now over 60 members of ADI allowing
huge scope for sharing knowledge that all our clients can benefit
from.
Following the Annual General Meeting, Peter said: I was very
pleased to be asked to speak to members of the Scottish Canine
Consultative Council and impressed by the tremendous work they
are doing in Scotland. I hope that Dogs for the Disabled will
be able to work closely with them in the future.
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