What Matters to Me Online Launch Event

Following the Challenging Behaviour Foundation’s presentations at the 2024 Community Conference we are pleased to share this opportunity to hear their key findings from their What Matters to Me Project.

 

This initiative involved engaging with young people with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities to influence policy and shape support and services.

The event will be an interactive session, sharing the project multi-media manifesto including a practical toolkit, giving attendees a chance to reflect on their own organisations practice, hearing from those involved in What Matters to Me and bringing together other good practice examples.

Places are limited, so book your free ticket here:

What Matters to Me Online Launch Tickets, Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite’

Conference 2024 Film

On 4th December 2024, the Community Conference was hosted at Canterbury Christ Church University with support from Kent Surrey Sussex Applied Research Collaborative.

Please see the film that the events team at Canterbury Christ Church created.

Seeking Learning Disability Nurses for Medicines optimisation research

Danielle Adams – Pharmacist and PhD Student at the University of Warwick is undertaking a Delphi study in deprescribing psychotropic medications in people with learning disabilities and is keen to recruit some learning disabilities nurses with an interest in the subject to participate. 

This will involve completing a questionnaire – taking approximately 20 minutes and helping to prioritise the themes until a consensus is found. It is envisaged that this activity will be complete by the end of November 2024. 

For more details please contact Danielle via danielle.adams@warwick.ac.uk 

Delphi Deprescribing Psychotropics Flyer October 2024

Kent and Medway Learning Disability Strategy 2024

The Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board will be holding a number of online meetings to help shape the strategy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people in the county. 

These events have been developed with local people to be accessible and inclusive to all.

Places can be booked by emailing makingadifference@kent.gov.uk by Tuesday 1 October 2024 

Two dates are available to book:-

Date:

Thursday 9 October 2024           

Time:

10.30am – 12pm

Location:

Virtual meeting on Zoom  

 

 

Date:

Tuesday 15 October 2024                

Time:

2pm – 3:30pm

Location:

Virtual meeting on Zoom  

For more details please click here.

Community of Practice Annual Conference 2024

The Community’s Steering Group is pleased to announce this year’s annual conference will take place on 4th December at Canterbury Christ Church University’s Medway campus.

We plan to share a flyer and call for abstracts/contributions in September, in the meantime please block the day out in your diary.Canterbury Christchurch Medway Campus Rowan Willams Court