Stronger, Louder, Together!
This week’s VLOG is about the guidance on visits out of care homes.
Gary Bourlet. Membership and Engagement Lead, looks at the new guidance that came into place on 4 May.
And he talks to two members who live in care homes to find out their views.
Read more “Guidance on visits out of care homes”
Guest blog from David Robinson, self advocate member
The local elections in England are taking place on the 6th May this year.
Blog by Gary Bourlet, Learning Disability England’s Membership and Engagement Lead
On 25 March the National Audit Office (NAO) published its report about the adult social care market in England.
The Care Act Easements in England are to be removed after a vote in parliament on the 25th March.
When they are removed local authorities won’t be able to operate under the Care Act Easements anymore.
This week we have seen the first steps being taken by the government to start easing off the lockdown restrictions.
Read the government’s easy read coming out of lockdown here
Blog by Gary Bourlet, Membership and Engagement Lead and self advocate
Guest blog from Jan Walmsley on encouraging people with profound and multiple learning disabilities to be more involved in self-advocacy.
Read the easy read summary here.
Self-advocacy and people with profound and multiple learning disabilities do not often go together. I noticed this when I first learnt about it in the 1980s. Jackie Downer, LDE lifetime member and a pioneer of ethnically sensitive self-advocacy put it like this when we wrote a chapter together
“I think it can work but it will take time. And we people with learning difficulties, we got no time.” (Walmsley and Downer 1997 p. 44).
Read more “Self-advocacy for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities”