This decision making toolkit is a practical guide to support social workers, health practitioners, school and college staff, parent carers, families and anyone working directly with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
Author: Lisa Richardson
BBC R4: Learning disabilities and the workplace
Most people with learning disabilities would like to work, but only a tiny minority are in paid employment.
Why is there such a gap between that desire and the reality?
Reporter Andrew Bomford meets a range of people who are trying to close that gap. One of them is Ismail Kaji who lobbies MPs on behalf of the charity Mencap to make workplaces accessible for people with a learning disability like himself.
Guardian: ‘Recognise Us’: portraits celebrate people with learning disabilities – in pictures
An art installation highlights the active roles of people with learning disabilities in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Recognise Us aims to challenge the stereotype that learning disabled people – who were artists and subjects for the images – are often invisible in communities
Great advice from Ndti on Mental Capacity Act day
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) places the individual at the heart of the decision making process and has the potential to improve the lives of many people, but the implementation of the act has been hampered by a lack of awareness and understanding, and for many it appears as an optional add-on when it should be central to practice.
A Parent’s Guide: Improving the well-being of young children with learning disabilities
A collaboration between the University of Warwick, Cerebra, Mencap, the Challenging Behaviour Foundation, and parents of children with learning disabilities.
The booklet has been created to help parents support the well-being of their young child with a learning disability (aged 0 to 5).