In this guest blog post, Jason Jaspal from Disability Rights UK discusses the challenges that people with learning disabilities can experience around managing their finances, and explains why they have been working with the Money Advice Trust on a new training course for advisers.
Dementia Action Alliance webinar: learning disabilities and dementia
Webinar: Learning disabilities & dementia –
Enhancing care & support
Tuesday 8 May, 10 – 11am
This webinar will feature MacIntytre’s Department of Health funded ‘Dementia Project’, which aims to improve awareness of learning disabilities and dementia, support a timely diagnosis and train professionals. It will give practical tips for any health and social care provider who is supporting people with a learning disability and dementia, or who are at risk of developing dementia. Register here.
NICE: Designing services for people living with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges
Jonathan Senker, Chair of the Committee for the NICE guideline on learning disabilities and Chief Executive for VoiceAbility shares his thoughts on why a new guideline is so important to the social care sector.
LDE Webinar: Transgender support for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism
People with learning disabilities and/or autism, may be considering a transition from the gender they grew up with, to a gender role they feel more comfortable with. Indeed, the person may have made this transition. As it is the case with the general population, people with learning disabilities may be exposed to discrimination, abuse, ignorance and also faced with practical and emotional stresses linked with everyday life in their new gender identity.
The Webinar will focus on how people with learning disabilities and/or autism are supported to navigate these practical and emotional difficulties and signpost to networks that may benefit and support people further. The Webinar will also consider the accessibility of information and support to this group.
Personalised health budgets and delayed transfers of care Free webinar: 26 April
The Better Care Support Team, supported by SCIE and PPL, is holding a series of webinars as part of the learning and development offer to everyone working to make real the aims of the Better Care Fund – integrated, flexible support so that people can manage their own health and wellbeing, and live independently in their communities for as long as possible.
This webinar will be delivered by NHS England’s Personalised Care Group, with input from users with lived experience, and a focus on the impact of personalised health budgets on delayed transfers of care.
This webinar is intended for colleagues working in intermediate care services, be they local authority, clinical commissioning group, or third sector staff. Materials used in the webinar will be disseminated afterwards.