Stronger, Louder, Together!
Learning Disability England wants to welcome some new people to it’s board of Trustees.
The Board of Trustees makes sure Learning Disability England does a good job and is chosen by the Representative Body.
On the 18th October three new people joined the board.
These people were:
Gary Bourlet and Amanda Fawcett, Membership and Engagement Leads for Learning Disability England share how they recently presented on self-advocacy at the Blackbelt National Advocacy Conference…
There are many different types of advocacy, from independent advocacy, to peer advocacy to what I would argue is the most important – self-advocacy!
Paid advocates are so important and I think could actually play a major role in supporting people with learning disabilities to self-advocate.
Blog from Scott Watkin – Paid Supporter Representative of Learning Disability England
On Tuesday I was at a reception at the Science Museum in London.
Blog by Ivan Olbrechts and James O’Rourke – Family and Friends Representatives of Learning Disability England
The new Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said that:
“Our NHS is broken, but not beaten. Together we can fix it. “
Announced on Monday, 21st October, the government has asked the public, NHS staff, and experts to help ‘fix’ the NHS via a new online platform:
The government is in the process of creating a 10 Year Health Plan.
The government says they want to create three ‘big shifts’ in health and care, these are:
Based on a conversation with Aisha Edwards
Aisha reflects on why diversity in the media is needed, some of the barriers she has had to overcome in her life and why she thinks Black History Month is so important…
October is Black History Month. This is a month that gives people the opportunity to share and celebrate the impact of black heritage and culture.
I wish that this was something that people were doing all year round, not just at this time, but I think it’s great that people are stopping to think about the good things black people have done through history.
There are lots of black people, especially women, who I look up to and have had an impact on my life.
Letitia Wright is a big role model for me. She is a Guyana-born actress who has overcome problems like depression and is now living in the UK and is a successful actress.
In September, Jack and Kumudu visited Inclusion Europe in Brussels, Belgium. Here they talk about how it went…
Gary Bourlet – Member and Engagement Lead for Learning Disability England
We speak a lot about what it means to lead good lives but not much about what it means to have a good death.
People find death more difficult to talk about.
To me, a good death would be a death that involves choice. I was able to plan what I wanted to happen before, during and after.
The Representative Body have decided Learning Disability England will stop using the social media platform ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter).
We do not think that the way X works at the moment fits with the values of Learning Disability England as a movement that champions a rights-based approach based on equality, dignity and fairness.
Gary is one of the Membership and Engagement Leads at Learning Disability England
I had great pleasure recording a podcast with Campaign 4 Change, supported by Achieve Together recently. The podcast is called Wheel of Engagement and this episode will be out to listen to by the end of October so keep an eye out for it!
We had such a productive chat about the Good Lives Framework hosted by Learning Disability England. We concentrated on three of the areas that the framework includes, which were social care, employment and transport. It was a thought-provoking afternoon.
Read more “A Good Lives Framework Podcast – A blog by Gary Bourlet”