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Our priorities for our work with people with Learning Disabilities includes the following programmes:
"People with learning disabilities have poorer health than their non-disabled peers, yet differences inhealth status are, to an extent, avoidable. The health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities in the UK start early in...
Making sure people who work in NHS trusts have the training they need to support people with learning disabilities
Coronovirus (Covid-19) is causing huge upheaval to everyone, especially to the lives of older and disabled people. NDTi is working on a range of issues, all of which are focused on ensuring that the implementation...
This guest blog is by Penny Phillips, a member of NHS England's Older People's Sounding Board and National Patient Safety Partner. Penny highlights practical steps to engage people and families in their own care and...
What was the Older People’s Sounding Board set up for? What is its mission? And what will success look like? Tony Watts OBE is a partner of the NHS Older People’s Sounding Board, which we...
Tony Watts OBE is a partner of the NHS Older People’s Sounding Board, which we facilitate on behalf of NHS England. On International Day of Older Persons, Tony writes about making older people’s voices heard...
Supporting Your Child Through Safe and Structured Supported Internships.
NDTi are working with Bristol City Council to write a Learning Disability and Autism Needs assessment report. This report is for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Local Authorities. We want to find out find...
We’re looking for participants to take part in a piece of research. You should be aged 40+ and have a learning disability and/or be LGBT+.
NDTi’s 2023 advocacy review spurs work to create a new set of tools and resources. Join our focus groups to input.
Amanda Nally, Community Led Support (CLS) development lead, writes about the recent annual gathering in Manchester.
Advocacy lead, Gail Petty, writes about the findings from a major new research report which reviews advocacy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health settings.
Harry Georgiou, youth advisory and coproduction assistant at DFN Project SEARCH, recently teamed up with NDTi's Thomas Henley to create a film which captures young people's experiences of work.
This report is a summary of what the research and evidence tell us about why young people with learning disabilities and/or autistic young people are in residential placements and what can be done to address...
A Deep Dive into the Plymouth Small Supports Story This report by Mike Richardson and Dr. Victoria Mason-Angelow from NDTi is about The Life and Economic Impact of Small Support Provision. Beyond Limits, a Small...
This report presents the interim and early findings from the first two stages of the National Development Team for Inclusion’s role as the Learning and Evaluation Partner for Phase 2 of the Sport Unites Programme...
People with learning disabilities have the right to choose where they live, and who they live with. We asked people with learning disabilities what it was like moving into their home. We spoke to...
In 2019 the NHS formed a Quality Improvement Taskforce with the aim of improving Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) in-patient services. One key outcome was the Family Ambassador programme. The primary purpose of the...
NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) Learning Disability Team funded NDTi to do two pieces of work to explore the role of learning disability nursing in England. The purpose of this work was to give a...
This report covers in depth research about advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospitals.
Building on successes in the USA and the UK (London), Laureus Sport for Good Foundation and its country specific partners have brought the Model City programme (now known as Sport for Good Cities) to Paris...
Mencap commissioned NDTi to conduct some research about work and learning disability in 2022. We worked with a group of people with lived experience of a learning disability to plan, design and advise on different...
Madeline Cooper
Email: Madeline.Cooper@ndti.org.uk
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