Thanks to various Community members for sharing this new toolkit from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine for working with people with learning disabilities.
Emergency care toolkit
Tag: Learning disability
New employment opportunity with Bemix
A new opportunity has arisen to support the development of leaders in Kent and Medway for the delivery of the Oliver McGowan Training.
Bemix, along with partners, Kent Autistic Trust, Aucademy and Canterbury Christ Church University have recently been awarded the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board contract to deliver the Oliver McGowan Training for the next two years. As a result they are looking to grow their team to support trainers with lived experience and facilitators.
To find out more click through to the Bemix website at https://www.bemix.org/outreach-and-support-lead-learning-disability-and-autism
Further opportunities will be shared in the coming months for people with learning disabilities, autistic people and training facilitators to become NHS England approved Oliver McGowan Trainers and part of the cascade of training in Kent and Medway.
Learning Disability events at Canterbury Christ Church in September.
Canterbury Christ Church will host two more Learning Disability and Autism knowledge mobilisation events in September, continuing the university’s commitment to develop it’s offer to this specialised workforce in Kent and Medway and beyond.
These in person events are free and are aimed particularly at those that are working with people with learning disabilities and autistic people. For more details and booking please see below.
LDA Workforce events Sept 24Kent and Medway Learning Disability and Autism workforce events
Canterbury Christ Church University will be hosting a series of learning disability and autism workforce events in 2024, aimed at:-
- Care staff and professionals working directly with people with learning disabilities and/autistic people, from education, health and care services.
- Education, Care and Health managers.
- Police and community support workers
- Anyone in Kent and Medway working with this diverse population
The first event will feature a presentation from CCCU MSc student and Makaton Trainer Katie Potts and her practice based research investigating how can Makaton be embedded into schools and their wider community.
To book a free place on this first event, please click here 
Books Beyond Words – ‘Loving Babies’ Book Launch
Kent Surrey Sussex Learning Disability Community of Practice event will be hosting the new Beyond Words book launch at the event at Kingston University on 1st December.
Beyond Words is delighted to be launching the second word-free picture book in their series on maternity and parenting. Loving Babies is the much-anticipated follow-up book to last year’s Having a Baby. Expertly co-created and trialled by professionals and experts by experience, Loving Babies is a picture story showing the realities and triumphs of early years’ parenting.
The book is designed to be used by people with learning disabilities or who find pictures easier to understand than words. It depicts two different households caring for and loving their new children. Loving Babies and Having a Baby can be used together to open conversations about pregnancy, parenting, and having children.
At the event, Baroness Hollins will be presenting this new publication and in their will be a lunch time book club to explore this new publication.
