Learning Disability Pride 2022

Blog by Gary Bourlet – who has been leading Learning Disability Pride for the past few years.
Stronger, Louder, Together!

Blog by Gary Bourlet – who has been leading Learning Disability Pride for the past few years.

On 1 April 2022 the government lifted the last of the Covid restrictions as part of their Living with Covid Plan.
This is an update from Learning Disability England on the current guidance.

Local elections are planned to take place on Thursday 5 May.

These elections will be a chance for you to decide who runs local services like schools, care for the elderly and disabled and libraries.

Blog by Gary Bourlet, Membership and Engagement Lead and self advocate

I have been thinking a lot about how the cost of living is going up.

And that people’s wages, benefits or pensions have not increased enough to keep up.

A blog by Gary Bourlet, Membership and Engagement Lead and self advocate

Learning Disability England has been working with self advocates and the British Institute of Human Rights to ask the Ministry of Justice to make accessible versions of the consultation.

Learning Disability England has joined with self advocates and the British Institute of Human Rights to write a letter to the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

Lots of members have been telling us they are worried about the people in Ukraine and what is happening there.

Learning Disability England is standing with the Stop People Dying Too Young group along with the British Institute of Human Rights, Inclusion North and Difference NE to send an Open Letter to the Ministerial Oversight Group on DNACPR.


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