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Task Force Advisory Group and social care reform

Date: 12/10/2021

Blog imageBlog from the Task Force Advisory Group Co Chairs Alex Fox, Rachel Moody and Trevor Wright

 

 

 

This blog is part of our series on the future of social care.

 

If you have heard politicians debating social care in the last few weeks, you would think that social care is just for older people and that the main problem with it is money.

Many people with learning disabilities and autistic people know that neither of these things are true.

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Ask yourself, whose social care is it anyway?

Date: 9/9/2021

Blog by Sinead Mchugh-Hicks, Executive Director of support at Advance Housing & Support

 

 

This is part of the Future of Social Care series of members’ thoughts and views.

Find out more about Learning Disability England’s work on the future of social care here

 

“I joined Advance in December 2020 but have worked in the sector for many years.

Joining an organisation in the middle of a global pandemic was daunting and challenging – but what I have seen in the care and support provided by Advance has really inspired me.

Read more › “Ask yourself, whose social care is it anyway?”

What we do when things go wrong

Date: 12/1/2021

If a member behaves in a way that may go against our beliefs or policies, Learning Disability England follows a set process to decide if they should leave.

Good Lives: Building Change Together

Date: 17/2/2021
Front cover of Good Lives framework report

What is Good Lives: Building Change Together?

Work on Good Lived started in 2020, when a group of 40 self advocates came together in Birmingham.

Find out more about the work in 2020 here

Good Lives brings together people’s thoughts and ideas about what it will take for everyone with learning disabilities to be able to live their good life.

The framework is there to start a debate and give ideas for action.

Learning Disability England host it but they do not control it.

It belongs to the community.

Watch the video about Good Lives: Building Change Together

The Framework document

Read Good Lives Building Change together here

Read the black and white version here

Read the Plain English summary here

The Good Lives Framework has 6 chapters.

Each chapter looks at what is happening now as well as what rights agreements say

There is also work that people are already doing that is brilliant or important.

And some ideas for change that anyone can start to use now or campaign for together

Watch a video about all the chapters here

Find out more about each chapter here

The first session at the 2022 conference was when Good Lives: Building Change Together went live.

Watch the recording from the first session here

The next step for the Good Lives framework is for people to work together to make it better or to take action if they can

What might you do to turn the framework into real change so that all people with learning disabilities can live their #GoodLives?

Do you have a particular interest in your area?

Do you have things you or your group want to share or make happen?

See resources and ideas to help you here

Helping to connect people

Do you need help connecting to others who are working on the same thing?

If so, contact Rachael and Gary, Membership and Engagement Leads, by email on info@LDEngland.org.uk or phone them on 0300 111 0444.

Lifetime Members

Date: 12/1/2021

Learning Disability England Lifetime members have been awarded lifetime membership for the work they have done or inspired in making Learning Disability England happen.

Jenny Carter

Jenny Carter being presented with a Learning Disability England Lifetime Membership at the House of Lords.

Patricia Charlesworth

Photo of Patricia Charlesworth after she was presented with a Learning Disability England Lifetime Membership at the House of Lords.

Sarah Cookson

Sarah Cookson (left) after being presented with a Learning Disability England Lifetime Membership at the House of Lords.

Simon Cramp

Simon Cramp being presented with a Learning Disability England Lifetime Membership at the House of Lords.

Jackie Downer MBE

Jackie Downer MBE being presented with a Learning Disability England Lifetime Membership at the House of Lords.

Steven Neary

Sui-ling Tang

Sui-ling Tang being presented with a Learning Disability England Lifetime Membership by Gary Bourlet.

Shaun Webster MBE

Shaun Webster MBE, spokesperson for Learning Disability England at the 2015 Conservative Party Conference.

Our Spokespeople

Date: 22/8/2016

We have spokespeople with learning disabilities, families and other experts who are ready to speak at events and to the media.

At Learning Disability England we believe society’s attitudes towards people with learning disabilities will not be changed until we see people speaking up for themselves, especially in the media and in politics.

A bit of history

Date: 18/8/2016

Learning Disability England was founded in 2015.
It is a registered charity.

Watch the video to listen to Gary Bourlet, now Membership and Engagement Lead, as he helped to set up Learning Disability England.

Our Aims and Key Documents

Date: 18/8/2016

 

Learning Disability England is bringing people and organisations together to create a movement for change where people with learning disabilities, families, friends and paid supporters come together on an equal basis.

As a membership organisation, members work together to build a world where people with learning disabilities have good lives with equal choices and opportunities as others.

We can’t name you all, but you are all very important.

Read the 2020 – 2021 Impact Statement here

Read the 2020 – 2021 Audited Accounts here

Read the 2020 – 2021 Easy Read Summary of our work and the accounts here