OUT NOW: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust:Employing more people with a Learning Disability: Our Learning Disability Pledge

Since September 2010 East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has been in partnership with Thanet College (now East Kent College) and Kent Supported Employment to provide adults with learning disabilities the opportunity to experience real work in an NHS environment which incorporates ‘on the job’ learning and increases their employability skills. Bright Futures, as …

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Reasonable adjustments workshop pilot report: OUT NOW

This Education was designed to raise doctors’ awareness of people with learning disabilities was supported by HEEKSS Intellectual Disabilities Workforce Development Programme. EKHUFT Clinical Education held 11 workshops relating to Reasonable Adjustments and the Mental Capacity Act and were facilitated by three local learning disability nurses and three people with learning disabilities. Although only 10% …

OUT NOW: Identifying a range of approaches in health equalities – Reducing, measuring and responding to health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities…… a multidimensional overview of projects supported by HEE working across KSS

We all recognise, with great sadness, that people with learning disabilities experience many different types of inequalities and are dying far too early. We all agree that this is unacceptable and needs to change now (This has also been greatly emphasised through the Annual LeDeR report in 2018). In Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trusts (KCHFT) …

OUT NOW: Hearing the LOUD Voice

At Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), until a few years ago we were a little smug about the way in which we delivered teaching regarding learning disability (LD) in partnership with people with learning disabilities (PLD); it felt that we had moved on substantially from teaching “about” to teaching “with”, and the success of this …

CHECK OUT: The Rightfullives Exhibition HUMAN RIGHTS, LEARNING DISABILITY AND AUTISM A COMMUNITY OF PERSPECTIVES

What is Rightfullives.net? "Rightfullives.net reflects the struggle, the joy and the ideals of all the people who have made it happen. Most importantly it reflects the human spirit of the artists and contributors who have shared their work and often, more than a little of themselves. Whether it’s the stunning yet brutal poetry and painting …