NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Grab your tickets – Thursday 10th December 2015  Doors 1pm and show 1.30pm

The Centre, Alpha Road, Birchington, CT7 9EG

Tickets £3 each for 4 for £10

Contact:  01843 224482

info@eastkentmencap.co.uk

The PCPLD Network is a voluntary organisation developed in 1998.  The national network brings together service providers, people with learning disabilities and carers to work together for the benefit of individuals with learning disabilities who have palliative care needs.   The ethos is that people with learning disabilities should receive the co-ordinated support needed to live their lives to the full, until the end of their life.    

If you would like to attend the next PCPLD Kent Branch meeting on 28th January 2015 it will be held in the  Training Room, at Pilgrims Hospice, Ashford, Hythe Road, Willesborough, TN24 0NE  

For further information please contact:  helen.filmer@kent.gov.uk or sue.marsden@kent.gov.uk

To learn more go to http://www.pcpld.org/  Tweet @PCPLDnetwork

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Kent County Council recently announced the winners of the 2015 Learning Disability Partnership Awards, which are annually held to celebrate unsung heroes who are making a difference to others.

The Awards enable Kent County Council to recognise companies, services and people who go the extra mile to help give people with a learning disability more choice, improved independence and access to their communities.

More than 120 nominations were received and the panel of judges were impressed by those who continue to support and improve the lives of people with learning disabilities.   By highlighting these achievements, Kent County Council hope it will encourage others to look at what they can do to support people with a learning disability in their community.

Congratulations to all of those nominated and the worthy winners, take a look here.   Winners Special V 0 1

17 December, 1:00-5:00pm

Agenda

• Recent developments clinical and research
• Proposed pathway
• Botox Economic Spasticity Trial (BEST) – a multinational RCT
• Practice Based Evidence, ASPIRE Trial
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging study in spasticity
• Experience of patients having Botulinum toxin therapy for adult spasticity – a qualitative study

There is no registration fee. If you would like to attend, please contact Dr. M Sakel.

Date: Tuesday 1st December 2015
Time: 10:30am – 3pm. Registration and refreshments from 10am
Venue: Mercure London Bridge

Health Education Kent Surrey and Sussex (HEKSS) is undertaking a workforce development project for people working with clients and patients with intellectual disabilities. The aim is to create a sustainable and secure workforce supply, for people that have intellectual disabilities, who require support from and / or access to services across Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

HEKSS has commissioned Skills for Care to help facilitate some of this important work, and we would jointly like to invite you to attend a one day conference which will look at planning for the learning disabilities workforce across the full range of adult services including residential, supported living and specialist. Transformation, personalisation and the development of community based services are at the heart of quality. The learning disabilities workforce needs to have access to the right education and training, that acknowledges the skills and values that are required, in the right place at the right time.

As part of this work, Skills for Care are undertaking research on the current state of the learning disabilities workforce for HEKSS. During this conference we will be presenting our findings from the research and finding out from you what your issues and challenges are for the workforce. We will also be discussing how we can best maintain contact in the future, and how to move this work forward.

We will be covering the needs of both the registered and unregistered workforce including PAs and we will be looking at the following issues:

• Recruitment and retention
• continuing professional development requirements
• the availability of progression routes for training and development.
• listening to the perspectives of those who use services and their families

Target Audience: Those who should consider registering are people who have responsibility for the learning disabilities workforce whether it is in the NHS, or other environments including independent, private and charitable organisations e.g. Registered Managers, Workforce Leads, Service Managers, Learning and Development Leads, Occupational Therapists. People who conduct care assessments and those responsible for the workforce for clinical or specialist services

If you would like to attend the event, click here to book your organisations space