Managing shared household expenses: What’s best practice?

About this event

This session talks about how people who live together can decide how to share the costs of household expenses and what best practice is.

This session talks about how people who live together can decide how to share costs such as food shopping, bills and furniture. We also talk about how to manage a shared vehicle and what the alternatives are. 

We share our experience of being appointees and financial advocates over one thousand people with a learning disability and working with over 200 support providers to share good practice, ideas and some warnings; focusing on how we can use the Mental Capacity Act to ensure each person’s money is used in the right way for them and they have access to what they need. 

The session is hosted by: 

Meike Beckford was until recently Lead Director at Dosh with eight years’ experience supporting people with their money as an advocate, as well as delivering training and consultancy across the country to self-advocates, support providers, social workers and families. 

Phillipa Gould is a Financial Advocate in the East Midlands and also leads Dosh’s specialist advocacy work. Prior to working for Dosh, Phillipa was a support team manager of several supported living services.

This webinar was for Learning Disability England members only.

You can become a member for as little at £12 a year, click here to find out more.

Census 2021 – What you need to know and how to get support

About this Event

Census Day 2021 took place on 21st March. This Census took place during a pandemic, while we were still in lockdown.

The Community Partnerships Team at the Office for National Statistics presented about Census 2021 in this online webinar.

The webinar was aimed at people with learning disabilities, their families and the organisations who support them who had questions about how the Census team will support them.

The webinar covered how the Census team have made sure information is accessible; and the support in place to help people with learning disabilities to complete the Census form.

The topics covered include:

• What the census is

• Why it is important

• When it happens

• What you need to do

• How you can get help

• How you can help others and spread the word

Coronavirus and people with learning disabilities – what do we know now?

About this Event

This workshop is open to people with learning disabilities, family members, and paid supporters; as well as people with responsibility for commissioning or delivering services and those in policy or development roles.

It will include input from self-advocates on people’s direct experiences, information on COVID-19 and people’s health, and the findings so far from the Coronavirus and people with learning disabilities research project (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/cedar/covid19-learningdisability )

The speakers include

• Gary Bourlet from Learning Disability England
• Annie Ferguson from PMLD Link
• Chris Hatton from Manchester Metropolitan University
• Richard Hastings from the University of Warwick

Webinar: Raising the Profile – PMLD Core & Essential Service Standards

About this Event

All providers of education, health and social care and support should be adapting and actively meeting the ‘PMLD’ standards when supporting children and adults with ‘profound and multiple learning disabilities’.

Likewise, the Standards are a tool to be used by families, commissioners and regulators when assessing what ‘good’ support looks like.

As we step into 2021, Achieve Together discusses how one adult social care provider has helped shape, and use the Standards to continually improve support, and ensure consistent benchmarking of the vision and approaches.

Among other advances, this has led to people with profound and multiple learning disabilities being more involved in self and peer advocacy.

Watch this webinar to learn more about this journey and the people involved.

This webinar is for anyone who is interested in the PMLD standards or thinking about how we work to make sure we are all being more inclusive.