Launching her bi-monthly column for CHP, Sharon Allen, CEO, Skills for Care, stresses the importance of maintaining workforce physical and mental wellbeing.
Centre for Welfare Reform: A New Way Home
Officially the UK Government recognises that people with disabilities should not be forced into institutions. However far too many people still remain in institutional care. In particular, many people have been sent hundreds of miles from home and made to live in private hospitals or special units – places that are associated with increased levels of abuse, isolation and oppression.
The guide is for people, families and for those professionals who seek to work in genuine partnership with them. All the ideas and examples are based on real people and the collaborative work of helping people overcome the barriers that people face as they try to build the lives they deserve.
Guardian:Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba wins appeal against being struck off
Court of appeal reinstates one-year suspension after death of six-year-old Jack Adcock.
ITV: NHS apologises for ‘avoidable’ death of woman with learning disabilities
the family of a women with learning difficulties, who died following a treatable illness, has received an apology from the NHS.
Jeanette McDiarmid, Independent Chair of the Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board, said Judith’s death was ‘untimely and avoidable’.
FPLD: When I Grow Up: facilitator’s handbook
This handbook is designed to help teachers raise the aspirations and employment prospects of young people with learning disabilities.
Across the UK, fewer than 5.8% of people with a learning disability have a job and many of those who are employed only work part time. Yet the vast majority of people tell us they want to work. This handbook was developed with schools and pupils and includes session plans and resources for 10 school workshops, along with some family workshops.