Covid Vaccinations - A Reasonable Response
NDTi Associate Crispin Hebron, and one of the authors of the soon to be published ‘A for Adjustments’, reflects on the importance of reasonable adjustments
News (COVID-19)
Health Inequalities are laid bare in the Vaccination Priority List Lottery
NDTI Ambassador, Saba Salman, looks at why relying on GPs' discretion for moving people with learning disabilities into priority group 6 isn't enough to tackle health inequalities.
Statement from the Valuing People's Alliance on the Long awaited reports on deaths of people with learning disabilities from Covid 19
Two reports last week highlighted the health inequalities that people with learning disabilities face....
How COVID has transformed the strengths-based culture in West Sussex
All this changed with the pandemic lockdown ... recent circumstances in some instances ‘turbo charged’ the move to a strengths based culture of practice.
NDTI receives 76k from the national lottery to support young people with SEND with life after lockdown
Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, the National Development Team for Inclusion’s (NDTi’s) Time to Talk project offers 50 young people online strength-based support at home to counter social isolation, provide motivation and help them return to education or training.
Loneliness and Covid - an Autistic view
Hi, my name is Conor. I’m 23 and an autism advocate, public speaker and occasional mental health consultant. Yeah that last one still amazes me at times, actually they all do
NDTi Joins the British Institute of Human Rights in concerns over Emergency Powers in Scotland
NDTi Joins the British Institute of Human Rights in concerns over Emergency Powers in Scotland
Put children at the heart of the recovery
We joined 150+ organisations calling on the Government to put children at the heart of the recovery process. Our joint statement to the Prime Minister is detailed below, followed by a full list of the 150+ signatories.
After the storm: Hope in adversity
Covid-19 has shone a spotlight on issues that were known to exist but were not given prominent national focus. The implications of the pandemic, played out in the full glare of publicity, has cast a sharper light on issues of poverty, disability, minority ethnic communities and the unequal distribution of caring responsibilities.
Where has all the bureaucracy gone?
Observations and learning on Leadership during Covid-19. Covid-19 has changed how many of us work - restrictions on movement, the liberation of not having to move, implementing guidance, desperately awaiting guidance, not knowing who to ask, there being no one, but ourselves, to ask.