Thanks to Becky, Ronnie, Stewart, and Diane for sharing and demonstrating Lifeswap with the Community.
A recording of this emotive and inspiring session is available below.
From the group work we heard that the Community of practice could reduce stigma by raising and maintaining awareness of people with learning disabilities in society including individual achievements, and data relating to equalities, while better educating care providers including mental health services/
University of Surrey are looking for a Research Fellow to develop phase two of their Together Project funded by Health Education England South East Region Intellectual Disabilities Programme and National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
Phase 1 of the Together Project co-produced an intervention designed to support the delivery of good maternity care to people with learning disabilities. In Phase 2 of the Together Project, the intervention will be implemented and evaluated in practice within local maternity systems in the south east of England.
At the last Community online event, Carrie Jackson – impACT, UEA facilitated a discussion with participants about what is required from our health and social care professionals in the future.
To do this, national and international leaders were gathered to share their experiences of practice and research.
Christine-Koulla Burke and Peter Allum from the Foundation of People with Learning Disabilities shared their work on workforce development.
Paul McClusky and Sue Bridges talked about employing people with learning disabilities as experts by experience in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Professor Ruth Northway talked about the development of the All Wales Health Profile.
The final presentation was from Arianwen Selway and HMP & YOI Healthcare Team.
Three questions provided a basis for the subsequent discussion:-
What knowledge and skills do we want the future care support and health professional staff to have when they qualify?
What kind of roles would we expect them to have and in what settings?
What do we need to do differently that puts people with lived experience in the driving seat for change?
The Community Steering Group are using to the resulting contributions to develop a workforce framework.
April sees the first of three online Community events which are all linked our shared purpose for people with learning disabilities and their allies to live Healthy Safe and Fulfilled lives.
This first event will be on 28th April from 12:30 until 2pm with Lisa Hopkins, Scott Watkin and Emily Stewart from Seeability. They will be sharing their model for investing in and mentoring people with learning disabilities to be leaders in their organisation and communities.
