Hello Everyone
Happy New Year!
I went to the national forum in December, we talked about the future of the national and regional forum a new contractor for the forum has been announced. This is Voiceability.
Voiceability will now organise the national and regional forum and they are meeting with the chair and co-chair of the national forum on the 25th o...
Hello Everyone
Our next regional forum is on the 14th of November at the The Full Life Church
High Street,Maltby. 10.30-2.20. The forum will talk about housing and internet safety. We are putting on a minibus from Doncaster to take people to the venue.
If you cant make it I can come and visit you please email me and i will arrange an appointment.
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Hello everyone,
Well i've been really busy lately, i have been doing a lot of training recently.
I also went to the national forum where they talked a lot about winterbourne view. They said that the department of health are writing a report about what happened at winterbourne view.From this report they will make recommendations for change. However this report cannot ...
Hello Everyone
I have now been elected as the co-chair of the National Forum. This means I can no longer be a representative for the Yorkshire and Humber Region.
If you have any issues or want to tell the national forum about anything affecting people with learning disabilities in our region please contact Alison Owen.
Thank you for all of your support...
Hello Everyone
I am going to the National Forum on Tuesday the 8th of March for 2 days if you have anything you would like me to take up with them, please email me or call me at Speakup on 01709 720462
Thanks
Alison
Hello everyone,
I went to the national forum on 7th-9th December 2010.
Nigel Dotchin from the Department of Transport came to talk. He said that there will be new rules for how bus drivers treat people. He also told us that mobility bus passes will be staying.
I went to the health sub group meeting at the forum. We talked about ways to get GP’s to listen to the...
I have been out to sufa in december to visit there self advocacy group in december
also been to work with scott cunningham to help out a group of self advocates in beverley which was in november also been to late night council meetings to hear about some of the cuts in our regional and following the news in our regional on social care cuts. I Have attended lots meetings regarding the futur...
Hello everyone. At the end of the regional forum we discussed bus passes because we had heard they were going to take our disabled passes away.
We are going to do a petition for people with learning disabilities to keep their bus passes.
I am also doing a petition to keep valuing people going.
I will be bringing it to the next regional forum.
The cuts won’t affect the n...
Dear all self advocacy groups across the country
We need you to write to Government to protest against axing Valuing people now by writing to Paul Bustow Social Healthcare Minister and Nick Clegg Deputy Prime Minister to save Valuing People Now, also Regional Forums and National Forums for people with learning difficulties and Care Quality Commission who inspect your providers and ...
This was my first National Forum meeting as a Regional Rep for Yorkshire and Humber.
We went into 4 groups to talk about Health, Advocacy, Community Lives and Transport.
I went into the Advocacy Group on Monday and the Health Group on Tuesday.
The Advocacy Sub-Group are going to create an Advocacy Guide to help Advocacy groups around the country to stay strong.
I told...
Hello everyone
we are national forum representatives for Yorkshire and Humber for people with learning disabilities Gavin Harding and Alison Owen. we would like you to sent your feedback and tell us whats happening in your local area for people with learning disabilities so we can take back to to national forum who will then feed it back to the government and national director Anne Willam...
Hello my name is Alison. Thank you for electing me to be your Regional Rep with Gavin for people with a Learning Disability for Yorkshire and Humberside.
On Monday it was my first board meeting as a Regional Rep with Gavin and it went really well. We talked about partnership boards and getting more people with learning disabilities involved.
Me and Gavin have decided to visit Partn...
Hello Everyone, I have been really busy recently attending lots of different meetings. I went to the National Forum at the beginning of September and reported back on the work I had been doing on Community Lives. If you have not sent in your feedback for this then contact Sally at Speakup and she will send you the information her email is sally@speakup.org.uk. I also went to the Valuing Employment...
Hello Everyone, I have been really busy recently attending lots of different meetings. I went to the National Forum at the beginning of September and reported back on the work I had been doing on Community Lives. If you have not sent in your feedback for this then contact Sally at Speakup and she will send you the information her email is sally@speakup.org.uk. I also went to the Valuing Employment...
Hello Everyone - just a quick update. We had the last Regional Forum on the 22nd of September the forum was really well attended by 108 people with Learning Disabilities. So thanks to everyone who came. Lots of people in our Region want our next forum to be on Advocacy. So if you are interested in running a workshop or having a stall showing the work your group does then let me or sally know. You ...