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The Society for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities and their Families
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Rescare is a registered national charity that supports, and campaigns on behalf of, the families and carers of people with learning disabilities. These families are often under great strain. Rescare provides a helpline and works across the UK. We welcome new members and volunteers. Join us and together we can make the world a better place for learning disabled people and their families!
Rescare Forums: Over the coming months we will be hosting a series of Forums via Zoom, on themes suggested via discussion with our members. The next forum will take place on Wed. 17th March 2021 (10 – 11 a.m.), and will be on the theme of learning disability, health and obesity. Full details of contributors and facilitators will follow. If you are interested in attending, and would like to receive an invitation, please email us at office@rescare.org.uk . Details of this and other Rescare forums here.
We are recruiting a Project and Public Engagement Officer – 0.5 FTE (17.5hrs pw) for 6 months (longer if funding is extended); salary £25,991 pro rata (£12,995.50 actual). Flexible working is available, and home-working considered. Key tasks: to establish and roll out a new befriending programme; to significantly raise Rescare’s profile with other professionals in the sector; and to reach more families through social media. If you think this role would suit you, or you know someone it would suit, then interested parties can download these documents: Job Description, Application Form and Monitoring Form for full details. In event of difficulty or query, please email secretary@rescare.org.uk . Closing date 15th March 2021, 5pm.
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The (in)accuracy of the 'learning disability register'. - Rescare
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Jo Whiley's story struck home – I was offered the vaccine before my severely disabled daughter
inews.co.uk
There is understatement, and then there is a ministerial statement on 'the learning disability register' in a Lords debate yesterday. Arriving at a headcount of people with a learning disability in the UK, or in the constituent nations, is no simple matter. But it's not made easier, when sets of data are held by various NHS departments , Social Service departments, the Department for Education and The Department for Work and Pensions....
www.rescare.org.uk/the-inaccuracy-of-the-learning-disability-register/
Seeking signatures.... change.org petition to Stop the closure of HFT residential facility at Furlong Close, Rowde
www.change.org/p/hft-and-wiltshire-council-stop-the-closure-of-hft-in-rowde
Journalist Sam Carlisle reacts to story of Jo Whiley and Frances, with the story of her own daughter, Elvi. inews.co.uk/opinion/jo-whiley-covid-19-vaccine-learning-disabilities-874778 Even angrier than Ian Rankin! "What this pandemic will leave me with is the lasting knowledge that the lives of people with learning disabilities just do not matter to those who run our country."
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