This guideline covers services for children, young people and adults with a learning disability (or autism and a learning disability) and behaviour that challenges. It aims to promote a lifelong approach to supporting people and their families and carers, focusing on prevention and early intervention and minimising inpatient admissions.

We are starting a new quality checking project where we will be working with a local support provider to check the quality of their services.

We are looking for 3 people with learning disabilities to join our team to help lead on this project.

You will need to be based in Sussex and able to make your own way to our office in central Brighton.

You will be paid £8.75 per hour and expected to work between 8 and 10 hours per month.

The deadline for applications is 18th July ’18

If you are successful in being shortlisted you will be invited to interview on 23rd July.

More info and Easy Read advert here

A meeting to discuss how the law can be used to help people with learning disabilities or autism detained in assessment and treatment units (“ATUs”) or other facilities. The meeting will be an opportunity for families of detained people to outline the human rights issues facing their relatives, and for lawyers (solicitors and barristers) to listen and think.

Find out more here.

Briefing by the Children’s Commissioner for England: Falling through the Gaps in Education.  Available here.

At the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Learning Disability Community of Practice I was asked to share on the blog information about the Standing up for Myself Project (STORM), developed at UCL and lead by Katrina Scior.

The STORM (Standing Up for Myself) programme is a manualised 4-session plus booster peer group intervention that seeks to empower people with learning disabilities to say ‘no’ to bad attitudes, prejudice and discrimination. STORM makes extensive use of filmed first-hand testimonials by people with learning disabilities, discussions and practical exercises.

There is more information about STORM on the UCL Unit for Stigma Research website and blog.

For anyone interested in finding out more about STORM we would be pleased to welcome you to our event in September.  This event we will present information about the STORM project and results from our pilot study of the STORM intervention.

Talks will be given by members of the STORM research team, self-advocate advisers, collaborators, and STORM facilitators and participants. This event will be fully accessible to people with learning disabilities and is free to attend.

Please see information below for the programme and bookings can be made via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/standing-up-for-myself-storm-end-of-pilot-project-feedbackand-celebration-event-tickets-45755445770

E mail enquiries about the event can be sent to Laurie.Poole@ucl.ac.uk