“Dedicated staff and managers carried on even when the world stood still”
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Guest VLOG from Sarah Maguire, Chair of the Trustees for Learning Disability England and Chief Executive of Choice Support.
Stronger, Louder, Together!
Guest VLOG from Sarah Maguire, Chair of the Trustees for Learning Disability England and Chief Executive of Choice Support.
Video blog (VLOG) from Gary Bourlet, Membership and Engagement lead and self advocate.
Learning Disability England has been working with Christine Towers at Together Matters to put together a short paper that shares some of the things families have said about what has happened to them since March.
Learning Disability England has been working to bring members and partners together during the pandemic to to help people stay safe, well and connected.
The Social care Task Force
The government asked David Pearson to lead a Taskforce on Social Care.
A Taskforce is a group of people working on one thing together.
TextIn a week where the Joint Committee on Human Rights has published its report about COVID, Gary Bourlet, Membership and Engagement Lead and self advocate reflects on Human Rights and Brexit.
In July Gary Bourlet wrote a blog about Self Advocacy working together through Covid 19 (you can read it here).
Learning Disability England members representatives have written a blog about the findings of abuse following an ‘inadequate’ CQC inspection that was published on 23 September of Yew Trees, a private Assessment and Treatment Unit.
Read more ““People are still being traumatised for life by the very places that are meant to help them””The Joint Committee on Human Rights has published its report about COVID-19 this week.
Read more “JCHR Report on the Government’s response to COVID-19”Annual Health Checks: making them work!
Wednesday 7th October: 2 – 3pm (on Zoom)
This free webinar will give people the chance to hear about great work that is being done by self advocates, family carers, commissioners and providers around the country to help make Annual Health Checks really work
Read more “Making Health Checks work: Webinar”