Stronger, Louder, Together!
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
Living Together in a Fair Way
By The Institute of Health Equity
Read more “Gary’s Response to the Marmot Report”
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.
Read more “Job vacancies”
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.
Read more “Gary Bourlet shares his thoughts on social care and what he thinks are most important having read the CQC State of Care report”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.
Read more “Learning Disability England Trustee and governance rules – our decision”
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.
Read more “Update from NHS England on the planning for the NHS 10 year plan”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.
Read more “Self Advocacy National Convention”
Learning Disability England
Questions about our policy and actions on shared values and governance
An update on what we have done so far and will do next
10th October 2018
Read more “Update on what we have done after people challenged our governance rules and values”
Leading social care interest groups from across the care sector are calling on the Government to urgently rethink its Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill that is now at a crucial parliamentary stage.
Read more “The planned mental capacity reforms are not fit for purpose – Self Advocates, families and providers all told us that”
What this is about
Depriving someone of their liberty is one of the most serious things the state can ever do to it’s citizens. It means that even if you can tell people what you want, you can’t decide for yourself things like what you want to do, or where you live.
Read more “Learning Disability England members responses to consultation on Mental Capacity Act changes and priority areas of concern”