Home is where the person is.
NDTi Chief Executive, Paul Marshall, reflects on the similarities between his social housing experience and the challenges currently facing the housing and support market....
News (Learning Disabilities)
The Learning Disability agenda needs new tactics, not just renewed energy.
Learning Disability Programme Lead, Madeline Cooper-Ueki, discusses our role in changing the direction of current learning disability practices in the UK.
The case for a new ‘Valuing People’ (but not called that)
There was something quite special about the whole Valuing People initiative back in 2001.
Learning Disability Big Health Check and Social Care Open day
Celebrating 10 years of reducing health inequalities and making a difference
Announcing the launch of the Green Light Discussion Forum
The Green Light Toolkit helps mental health services respond effectively to people who have autism or learning disabilities in addition to mental health difficulties
Paying people with learning disabilities lower wages perpetuates inequality
Calls to pay people with learning disabilities below the minimum wage fly in the face of the evidence – not to mention the law.
Transforming Care – What good could look like
Guest Blog from Doreen Kelly, Director of Beyond Limits an organisation based in South West England that has piloted a tailored approach using Individual Health Budgets in the form of an Individual Service Fund that ensures a truly person centred approach to support.
Paving the way
A guest blog from family carer Jackie Martel who talks about why a new Children's Pathway is needed and how a set of three new resources will help Transforming Care partnerships, local authorities and CCGs to work together with local families to develop a new approach.
Supporting a better path to adult life for young people with additional needs
Alice recently emailed us about her son who has Asperger’s. At our request she has written a blog to highlight some of the challenges her son and her family have faced over the years.
Seven days of Assessment and Treatment Unit (ATU) Action
Monday the 18th April sees the start of seven days of action to raise awareness of numbers of people with learning disabilities currently detained in ATUs, and what their lives are like.