2021 – Page 2 – Learning Disability England

Task Force Advisory Group and social care reform

Date: 12/10/2021

Blog from the Task Force Advisory Group Co Chairs Alex Fox, Rachel Moody and Trevor Wright

This blog is part of our series on the future of social care.

If you have heard politicians debating social care in the last few weeks, you would think that social care is just for older people and that the main problem with it is money.

Many people with learning disabilities and autistic people know that neither of these things are true.

Digital LifeLine – interim report published today

Date: 30/9/2021

Learning Disability England has been working in partnership with Good Things Foundation and AbilityNet, VODG and other disability and digital inclusion organisations and community partners to help people with learning disabilities get online.

Coronavirus and people with learning disabilities research – Wave 3 findings

Date: 29/9/2021

The coronavirus and people with learning disabilities research latest findings for Wave 3 have now been published.

Equal Treatment: Challenging racism and health inequalities through strengthening self-advocacy and peer support

Date: 28/9/2021

Ask yourself, whose social care is it anyway?

Date: 9/9/2021

Blog by Sinead Mchugh-Hicks, Executive Director of support at Advance Housing & Support

This is part of the Future of Social Care series of members’ thoughts and views.

Find out more about Learning Disability England’s work on the future of social care here

“I joined Advance in December 2020 but have worked in the sector for many years.

Joining an organisation in the middle of a global pandemic was daunting and challenging – but what I have seen in the care and support provided by Advance has really inspired me.