National Forum for People with Learning Disabilities established to meet a key aim of Valuing People Now, to enable people with learning disabilities and the families to contribute to and influence decisions which affect their lives; the National Forum receives input from 9 Regional Forums and provides feedback to the Minister for Care Services via the National Learning Disability Programme Board; note the Useful Links section
NHS Complaints Advocacy Service; replaced the former ICAS service; information about how to complain about NHS services
People First - A Voice For People With Learning Difficulties; an organisation run by and for people with learning difficulties to raise awareness of and campaign for the rights of people with learning difficulties and to support self advocacy groups across the country
POhWER is a charity and membership organisation, providing information, advice, support and advocacy to people who experience disability, vulnerability, distress and social exclusion.
Rosa Monckton's personal website; but with sections devoted to her campaigns and television documentaries and press articles
SIBS - for brothers and sisters of disabled children and adults; the only UK charity representing the needs of siblings of disabled people - siblings have a lifelong need for information, often experience social and emotional isolation, and have to cope with difficult situations; supports siblings of all ages who are growing up with, or who have grown up with, a brother or sister with any disability, long term chronic illness or life limiting condition
The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve health and health care in England; helps to shape policy and practice through research and analysis; promotes understanding of the health and social care system; brings people together to share knowledge and debate; publishes wide range of articles and research papers
The Small Places; a blog by Lucy Series, research associate at Cardiff Law School. Her research focusses on legal capacity, deprivation of liberty, and community care law; she has worked on welfare cases in the Court of Protection; not only a blog but an excellent source of up-to-date information on legislation, case law etc.
Online access to current and back issues of The Carer, a supplement published intermittently by The Times newspaper
The UK Advocacy Network is an advocacy umbrella organisation ; describes itself as 'the user controlled national federation of advocacy projects, patients' councils, user forums and self-help and support groups working in the field of mental health'