Learning Disability England champions Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
This includes in 2022 speaking up in defence of the Human Rights Act. Read the Learning Disability England response to the government consultation on the Human Rights Act here.
Campaign for Disability Justice
A national campaign led by Inclusion Barnet and calling on Government to work with Disabled led organisations to guarantee: Opportunity to work, financial Security and Respect, for all Disabled people, whether in work or not.
The campaign aligns with Learning Disability England’s values and priorities and the representative body has chosen to actively support the campaign.
Find out more and sign up to support the campaign here.
Learning Disability England members have helped develop and support many campaigns led by The British Institute of Human Rights.
This includes a guide on Using Human Rights to get home.
As well as Using Human Rights, a toolkit to advocate for your Human Rights.
They have also produced these Easy Read Human Rights Postcards.
Community support for people with learning disabilities and autistic people
Learning Disability England supports the campaigns led by other organisations that are working to stop the mistreatment of people in mental health hospitals.
This includes the coproduced lifelong action plan coordinated by the Challenging Behaviour Foundation
Inquest campaigns on access to legal Aid
INQUEST is a charity working to end deaths caused by unsafe systems of detention, a lack of care, the use of force and by institutional failure.
Learning Disability England members have said many times how important it is families have legal representation at an inquest i their famiy member has died in the care of the state.
Also, that they want the outcomes of inquests to lead to learning and changes.
Therefore we support Inquest’s campaigns and work on these issues.
Legal Aid for Inquests: Automatic non means tested legal aid funding for families’ specialist legal representation immediately following a state related death to cover preparation and representation at the inquest and other legal processes. #LegalAidforInquests
A National Oversight Mechanism: A new, independent, public body with a duty to collate, analyse and monitor recommendations and their implementation arising from post death investigations, inquiries and inquests.