A new heritage project aims to dispel misconceptions about learning disability and the lives of people who lived in long-stay institutions. The charity CASBA (Citizen Advocacy South Birmingham Area) spent a year collating stories and archive material relating to Birmingham’s Monyhull Hospital.
Author: Lisa Richardson
Professor Andre Strydom’s Inaugural Lecture: Alzheimer’s and Down Syndrome: removing the roadblocks for testing new treatments
Wed 14 November | 17:30 – 18:30 | Wolfson Lecture Theatre, IoPPN Main Building, Denmark Hill Campus
WeLDNurses: RNLD summit: documenting workforce challenges
WeLDNurses were invited to document the RNLD summit in the summer, which was called to consider the well documented workforce challenges relating in learning disability nursing.
They have compiled as 5 minute audio clip of interviews at the event of a cross section of nurses documenting the reasons they became nurses and the difference they realised they could make.
Full details are on the WeCommunities site:at http://www.wecommunities.org/blogs/3430 while the audio is available directly at https://soundcloud.com/weldnurses/rnldsummit-31-7-18
Thanks Daniel Marsden for sharing this!
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Community Care: How social workers can protect children with learning disabilities from sexual exploitation
Emilie Smeaton, one of the authors of a report published today on the sexual exploitation of children with learning disabilities, gives key tips to social workers.
‘Unprotected, overprotected’ is UK-wide research addressing the sexual exploitation of children and young people with learning disabilities. This has provided the following evidence-based key lessons for social workers to take forward into their practice:
Children with learning disabilities have similar vulnerabilities to sexual exploitation as other children and young people