In the North East and North Cumbria the North East and Cumbria Learning Disability Network have just launched our co-developed Learning Disability Menopause Passport. This is an easy read document t...

This consultation seeks views on the draft statutory guidance issued under the Down Syndrome Act 2022.

We are pleased to announce that the next FREE Growing Older with Learning Disabilities webinar will be happeing on 26 Nov at 12:30pm This free webinar will present the award-winning workbook for fami...

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This fantastic course has already improved the knowledge and skills for many professionals across health and it may be something you find interesting and worthwhile. Kirsten Lamb is an inspiration to ...

Brilliant work North East & Cumbria Learning Disability Network and Kirsty Greenwell

I’ve written a short blog to outline some of the lessons learnt from implementing ‘an enhanced smoking cessation service for adults with severe mental illness’. https://lnkd.in/eh2Pifkb You can al...

Fantastic work Aicha

The new LeDeR report is now available. The 2023 annual report analyses the deaths of 3,556 people with a learning disability & autistic people who died in 2023. The work is part of efforts to reduce h...

This webinar is for Learning Disability England members who are interested in learning more about Involving Everyone - a projec...

In case this is useful, a suicide prevention toolkit for autistic people for professionals from NENC ICB written by Helen Bowyer and myself https://lnkd.in/eS3tj4hx

Me and Gail Yule working out our practice policies and processes to implement the https://lnkd.in/eDyc2Fis and promoting the wonderful https://lnkd.in/er_C_jJn campaign by North East & Cumbria Learnin...

Brilliant work from the Health Equity team at RCP

Doctors in Distress

SeeAbility has launched a new short film for Learning Disability Week to raise awareness how people with learning disability can get support with eye care.

Exclusive: Lobbyists meet with ministers, and host a darts night with Labour advisers and MPs’ staff Gambling lobbyists are staging a summer charm offensive designed to stop ministers from raising taxes on the sector, the Guardian has learned, including meeting with Treasury insiders and hosting a darts evening with Labour special advisers and MPs’ staff. The Treasury is considering whether to simplify the various rates of duty applied to gambling products, a measure that the £11.5bn-a-year sector fears would increase its overall tax bill. Continue reading...

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Emergency Alert day has been confirmed as 7th September. If you have a secret phone for safety go to settings and turn off all government notifications. Setting it to silent or airplane is not enough ...