Stronger, Louder, Together!
This free webinar gave people the chance to hear about the 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.
Ideas, experiences and priorities for housing choices for people with learning disabilities.
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Ideas, experiences and priorities for housing choices for people with learning disabilities.
Contact us to find out more about this work
This webinar is about the law and rules. It is for self advocates.
The recording can be watched here
The slides used in the webinar are here
Resources shared by participants and more information about what local areas are doing here.
The webinar was led by Skills for Care and Learning Disability England. It was building on their work with NDTi and VODG on a project to improve access to Annual Health Checks.
The session was focused on annual health checks and included some examples of how they can help people despite current Covid restrictions.
On 14th July we held our first Self-Advocacy: Sharing Best Practice session.
Self-Advocacy groups across the country are leading the way on important work.
We know that everyone is often so busy they don’t get to share their work.
We want to help connect people and them work together.
In this meeting three self-advocacy groups shared projects that they are proud of.
The groups told everyone what their project was about and why it’s important.
These sessions are funded by RTR.
Dorset People First spoke about their women’s group
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Inclusion Gloucestershire talked about engaging with health
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People First Forum talked about their Mix It Up DJ Project
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You can find the contact details for each group in their presentation
People First Dorset spoke first.
Kerry and Mark told us about their women’s sessions.
They told us the groups were important because they helped people be more confident.
They also helped people learn about women’s health issues
You can download the presentation here
You can watch their presentation here
Inclusion Gloucestershire presented next.
Sammy and Rosie talked about how they are engaging with health.
They talk about setting up a user-led group.
The group thinks about health messages and how to help more people get involved in health.
You can download the presentation here
You can watch their presentation here
People First Forum were our final speakers.
Daniel, Emily and Amanda told us about their Mix It Up DJ Project.
The project started small with a few people learning to be DJs.
The group now perform at festivals.
You can download the presentation here
You can watch their presentation here
We are planning another one of these sessions.
Please drop Rachael an email if you would like to be put on the list for more information.
rachael.hall@LDEngland.org.uk
Alex Ruck Keene and Steve Broach from 39 Essex Chambers covered the basic principles of law underpinning decision making like the Mental Capacity Act and the current guidance including
• restrictions on people living with people shielding
• track & trace responsibilities and roles especially for supporters
• making individual decisions on risk visit and any activity that balances infection control & well being for example
The information was correct at the time of recording on 9.6.20
Led by the British Institute of Human Rights and hosted by Learning Disability England in support of the Right 2 Home campaign
The session will focus on how people with learning disabilities, autistic people and family members knowing more about human rights and the law can help them build and keep the independent life they want including a home.
About the #right2home campaign
22nd May marks 1 year since we saw horrific scenes of abuse in Whorlton Hall, broadcast by BBC’s Panorama. Yet still today, over 2,000 adults and children with learning disabilities and/or autism are locked up in secure mental health units, denied the right to home and family life that keeps them well. Government promises to move people into their own homes are still being broken, nearly 9 years after Winterbourne View closed.
The coronavirus lockdown means even greater risk of people being locked up. It means more people in mental health crisis going into secure care, and delays to moving out into a home of their own. We’ve all been asked to stay at home, but these fellow-citizens can’t be at home. They’re even more cut-off than ever from family and friends.
#right2home is a campaign to keep this scandal on the political agenda, and press the government to act on its promises. 5 days of action from 18th to 22nd May. Picking up from earlier campaigns, #right2home is co-run by people with learning disabilities and campaigners.
This webinar is focused on The Mental Capacity Act and any issues in implementing it and what good decision making and advance planning looks like under current circumstances.
The webinar is led by 3 Barristers from 39 Essex Chambers – Nicola Kohn, Alex Ruck Keene and Steve Broach.
They cover the basic principles of the act, implementing them in practice under the Coronavirus law and wider restrictions and try to clear up myths or misunderstandings around current restrictions and what is possible or expected.
The webinar is open to anyone with an interest in decision making, restrictions and the legislation.
This webinar will be hosted by Nesta, an innovation charity, which has pioneered the 100 Day Challenge method that puts frontline staff and people with lived experience at the heart of systems change.
Nesta has recently worked with Essex County Council to run a 100 Day Challenge partnering with communities to learn how to better support residents with learning disabilities and autism to live a meaningful life.
The Challenge gave team members the space to collaborate and build on each other’s expertise – it involved more than 36 organisations and 23 people with learning disabilities and autism, working together to improve outcomes for more than 300 people.
Three teams across the county tested sixteen ideas ranging from new ways of supporting young people into employment, to bringing health services into the community and setting up an inclusive cricket team.
This webinar will explore what participants learnt about how to listen to people with learning disabilities and autism, collaborate to test and deliver their ideas, and support them to take on leadership roles.
We will be hearing from representatives from Essex County Council as well as people who took part in the Challenge.