Mandatory training for health and social care staff

Read more › “This must not be a wasted opportunity”

Read more › “Universal Credit : How is it affecting learning disabled people?”

On Human Rights day we stand with more than 100 other organisations signing a letter to party leaders because Human Rights are critical to all our lives. We know too many people with learning disabilities do not have their basic rights respected.

Read more › “Human Rights Day 10th December 2019”

Read more › “International Day of Disabled People 2019”

Read more › “Disability History month”

There is a general election on 12^th December.

Lots of people are sharing great information to help people get ready to vote and decide how they vote.

We will keep updating this page as we get new information. We are not checking or supporting any of the information – you need to do that yourself.

Please do send us anything you know of or have done and want to share with others.

Read more › “Election and Voting Resources”

Read more › “National Self Advocacy Convention 2020 – Open for booking”

Last week I went to a meeting on the Quality Matters initiative at the Department of Health and Social Care. With lots of other important and senior people we talked about what should be the focus of attention if we are to improve adult social care in the UK.

Read more › “Quality matters”

Learning Disability England has been talking and thinking about inclusion a lot recently. More than usual I realise.

Read more › “Inclusion”

Disability Hate crime and how we talk about people 

We have written this blog because we want to remind everyone that how we talk about people matters. The words we use make a difference to how people see people each other. Sometimes we hear people with learning disabilities talked about as if they are different to everyone else or even dangerous.

Read more › “What we say matters”