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Our work on the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill – update January 2019

Date: 22/1/2019

Last year we asked our members what they thought about the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill. Self advocates, families, professionals and organisations all agreed on the main points – they were worried about people’s rights, people and their families’ voice being heard and potential conflicts of interest in the proposals. You can see what people said here

The law commission are thinking about driverless vehicles

Date: 22/1/2019

The law commission are thinking about driverless vehicles. They want to know what disabled people need so that vehicles without a driver are accessible to everyone.

The NHS 10 year – what we are thinking so far

Date: 9/1/2019

We have done a short briefing for Learning Disability England members on the plan and Learning Disability England’s thoughts on it.
A chance for people with learning disabilities and autistic people’s life and care to matter?

Celebrating 70 years of Human Rights – action, resources and inquiry

Date: 10/12/2018

Learning disability England is one of the 155 groups or organisations that has signed this letter to the prime minister asking her to commit to looking after those freedoms for everyone

Gary’s Response to the Marmot Report

Date: 28/11/2018

Living Together in a Fair Way

By The Institute of Health Equity

Job vacancies

Date: 30/10/2018

Position: Full-time Support Workers – Supported Living

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week (including days, evenings, waking nights and some weekends)

Salary: £17,700.80 per annum (pro rata), rising to £19,624.80 (pro rata) upon successful completion of probation.

Gary Bourlet shares his thoughts on social care and what he thinks are most important having read the CQC State of Care report

Date: 30/10/2018

What next for social care?

The CQC are seeing what is good about services and what is bad about services. The CQC look at all the things like health and social care. Most of the people they asked say their services are good.

Learning Disability England Trustee and governance rules – our decision

Date: 19/10/2018

Learning Disability England (LDE) has been asked questions about 1 of its Trustees and if they should be part of LDE’s governance because of things they have been involved in as part of their job.

Update from NHS England on the planning for the NHS 10 year plan

Date: 19/10/2018

After a lot of different meetings and feedback, including the 7 events we helped NHS England organise, they have shared an update on what they are doing now. There is a short film and a presentation that explains what priorities they are working on and what will happen next.

Self Advocacy National Convention

Date: 18/10/2018

The North West self advocates forum have agreed to host a national self advocacy convention. This will happen alongside the North West Self Advocacy conference that has happened for the last 15 years.