Representative Body Elections
Learning Disability England is looking for 6 members who want to join the Representative Body
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Legal action on Human Rights
Today the Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock starting a legal challenge over the failure to protect the Human Rights of people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
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Two different perspectives by Gary Bourlet, self-advocate, and Frank Steeples, Quality Assurance lead at KeyRing
My experience of being a presenter for a radio 4 documentary
by Sui-Ling Tang from the Supported Loving Network
Talking to support organisations about self-advocacy
Blog from Gary Bourlet and the LDE Team
Working on the care certificate together
Gary Bourlet on working with Skills for Care and others on the Care Certificate
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Back in September we hosted a training session for family workers. During the day we talked about how family workers from across the sector could support each other and coordinate on shared issues.
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Mandatory training for health and social care staff
Read more “This must not be a wasted opportunity”Universal Credit : How is it affecting learning disabled people?
One of our priorities as Learning Disability England is Influencing funding decisions and understanding how it affects peoples lives.
Human Rights Day 10th December 2019
On Human Rights day we stand with more than 100 other organisations signing a letter to party leaders because Human Rights are critical to all our lives. We know too many people with learning disabilities do not have their basic rights respected.
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