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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.

Find out more here.

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.

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.

Read the blog here.

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.

Find out more here.