Webinar: the Association of Quality Checkers
12th January 2018, 10.00 – 11.00, online
We’re excited to announce the next in our series of free webinars for LDE members!
Read more “Webinar: the Association of Quality Checkers”Stronger, Louder, Together!
12th January 2018, 10.00 – 11.00, online
We’re excited to announce the next in our series of free webinars for LDE members!
Read more “Webinar: the Association of Quality Checkers”As we enter party conference season, LDE Co-Founder Gary Bourlet lays out his thoughts about what people with learning disabilities want to see from social care.
LDE will be talking to politicians about social care at Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative party conferences over the next month.
Read more “What We Want To See From Social Care”Here are the latest jobs that are available with our members and organisations that we work with.
Read more “Jobs – September 2017”The Alliance works on national policy and aims to:
In April 2017 the 21 members of the Alliance were announced.
The members were selected from over 180 organisations that applied to join.
One of the members is the Valuing People Alliance, which Learning Disability England is a part of.
The Valuing People Alliance is made up of:
We also work closely with the Challenging Behaviour Foundation, Respond, Paradigm-UK, and other Voluntary and Community Sector Enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
The role of the Valuing People Alliance is to represent people with learning disabilities.
We want to improve the health and well-being of all people with learning disabilities. This includes all people with learning disabilities including those who have autism and/or mental health conditions, and people who may be in contact with the criminal justice system, and their family/carers.
We are keen to work with other members of the alliance where we can achieve more together.
Examples of areas of work we are interested in include:
Ben Higgins (BILD)
b.higgins@bild.org.uk
@BILD_tweets
Samantha Clark (LDE)
Samantha.Clark@ldengland.org.uk
@LearningDisEng
Madeline Cooper -Ueki (NDTi)
Madeline.Cooper-Ueki@ndti.org.uk
@NDTicentral
If you have any questions about Learning Disability England the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance please contact us.
Here are the latest jobs that are available with our members.
Read more “Jobs with our Members – August 2017”Richard Hunt supported by Sonia Boue recently completed two mixed media pieces on board. Visit disabilityarts.online to read more about Richard and his work.
Read more “Beautiful new work by Richard Hunt”This is a guest blog from LDE member Robina Mallett. Robina is the Family Carer member of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme’s national steering group.
Read more “Why are some people with a learning disability dying before they should?”Danny Tozer died on 22nd September 2015 after having a seizure in his bedroom in a shared house where he was supported by Mencap.
We wrote about this awful news and you can read our thoughts here. Our Co-Founder, Gary Bourlet, also wrote a response which you can read here.
Read more “LDE Letter to Mencap”Today the Care Quality Commission (CQC) released a report about the state of mental health services from 2014 to 2017.
The report found that although some mental health services have improved, there are still problems.
Read more “State of Mental Health: Plain English Summary”