inclusion north bulletin 117

8/16/2019 Inclusion North Bulletin 117

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In this bulletin you will hear about some of thework Inclusion North is doing and informationabout what is happening across the country.

Find Inclusion North on Facebook and Twitter

You can find out more about all the work we are doingby following us on Facebook and twitter at:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/InclusionNorth

Twitter: @InclusionNorth

Safe Places Sharing Events

Safe Places is a scheme to provide safe places in thecommunity where people with learning disabilities can goif they get into trouble or feel unsafe, frightened or bullied.

We know that there is a lot of good work going on in theNorth East and Yorkshire and Humber and we will behaving two events where people can share what ishappening in their area.

We have asked some people to tell us about their Safe

Places schemes and what has made it a success.

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There will also be time for everyone to ask questions

about the different schemes so that they can support other

areas and help improve their local schemes.

We would like 6 people from each Inclusion North member

area to come to this event. You can see a list of member

areas at the end of the bulletin.

The event for the North East will take place on

8th June in Darlington

From 10.00am to 3.00pm

The event for Yorkshire and Humber will take place on

30th June in Leeds

From 10.00am to 3.00pm

To book a places, please contact Marie at

[email protected]

or call

0113 2444792

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Advocacy and Negotiation workshop for FamilyCarers

Family carers play a key role in supporting their son,

daughter, brother, sister, husband, wife, cousin, niece,nephew, other relative or friend with a learning disability.

This free workshop will give you an understanding of howto advocate and negotiate with and for your relative orfriend.

This workshop will take place on

13th June

in Darlington

Registration from 09.30am with the session 10.00am to2.30pm

Come along to strengthen your skills on:

Listening for Information Knowing how to stay strong Knowing your principles and sticking to them Being assertive Negotiation

There are 25 places available for this workshop.

If you would like to attend,please

Email :[email protected]

Or Telephone : 0113 2444792

This session is being run in partnership with LizWilson, Inclusion North Associate and family member.

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NHS Continuing Healthcare 2016 Survey

The Failing to Care coalition campaign to improve NHScontinuing healthcare.

NHS continuing healthcare, also known as NHScontinuing care, is a type of professional care that isarranged and paid for by the NHS. It's free to the persongetting the care. Whether a person gets it or not dependson whether the need for care is mostly due to healthneeds – which can be hard to work out.

They're particularly looking at the NHS continuinghealthcare made available in England - so are only askingpeople who have applied for it in England to respond tothis survey.

To help make NHS continuing healthcare better they needto understand what the system does well, and where it isletting people down.

This survey should take about fifteen minutes to complete.

Your responses to this survey will help them demandchange. They may use quotes from the answers they get,but will make them anonymous unless people give thempermission to use their name.

The survey will close after June 2016.You can find out more on their website at

http://bit.ly/20RdTy4

If you have any questions please contact Morgan Vine,Policy and Campaigns Advisor on

[email protected]

or

020 7963 9322.

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People with a learning disability denied care

close to home

The government’s Transforming Care programme aims tomove people with learning disabilities out of long-stayunits a long way from their family, and into the communitynearer to home.

Learning Disability Voices, who are a group of careproviders working together, think this will not work

because they say providers do not have the means tomove people into the community safely and effectively.

Learning Disability Voices have released their Care CrisisManifesto. A manifesto is something that tells you aboutwhat people believe.

You can find out more in the Guardian newspaper storyabout this

http://bit.ly/1Y0CBNp

Or on Learning Disability Voices website here

http://bit.ly/1U9Y155

And you can see the Care Crisis Manifesto here

http://bit.ly/1TUvJiX

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Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Review

Report

A new report has been published by the Voluntary,

Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Review. It is

based on the largest review of the voluntary sector’s work

health and social care.

The report makes 28 suggestions that have been agreed

by the Department of Health, Public Health England and

NHS England.

You can download the full report here

http://bit.ly/25xWWiW

Here is a shorter version

http://bit.ly/1P0dPpt

And here is a summary of the report by Alex Fox

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Quality Checkers Website Launch

The Association of Quality Checkers have launched their

new website.

They are a not for profit membership association fordisability organisations that provide quality checkingservices.

The website is a way of promoting the work of QualityCheckers in health and social care services.

To use the website you will need to have a subscriptionpackage to member organisations.

On the website you can also find news on

Members and sponsors

Links to disability campaigns

Information to help quality checkers do their work

Quality Checkers events

To join the website follow the link

http://bit.ly/1WKNaV8

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CQC Report – Better Care in My Hands

Better Care In My Hands describes how well people are

involved in their own care and what good involvement lookslike.

Everyone has a right to be involved in their own care.

This is very important for person centred care and helps to

make the care people receive better.

The report is based on evidence from

national reports

inspections

patient surveys

information reviews

The report shows what helps people and their families to

work together with health and social care staff and good

practice examples from inspections.

Some of the things they found were

Half of the people asked feel involved in decisions

about their health care and treatment.

People with a learning disability are less involved intheir care.

People need to be more involved in their care.

Accessible information is needed for people and their

families and carers

. To see the report click

http://bit.ly/22m99BX

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CQC Strategy 2016 to 2021

The Care Quality Commission strategy show that they

have set measures to have a better approach to checkingpeople get high quality care.

Over the next five years four things have been chosen towork on that they think are important.

They will work with people to make things better asnew care models develop, and share the results ofthe checks made of NHS trusts' and foundationtrusts'

They will use information from the people andproviders in a better way to make sure all people

have good care and to check that care gets better.

They will work with others to agree how to checkcare and if the care is good. They will do this bygetting information from providers to make sure thatall people have good care.

They will work in ways that are efficient and savesmoney. They also want to improve how they workwith the people and providers.

The plan is available in easy read here

http://bit.ly/1NKc058

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Autism Resources for GPs

On the 20th May resource packs were sent to every

General Practitioner (GP) in England.

The packs have been written by the Royal College of GPs

(RCGP) with help from other organisations including

Autism Alliance UK.

The pack aims to support GP surgeries to deliver the

Autism Patient Charter.

The Autism Patient Charter provides a framework for

making GP surgeries visibly friendly for people on the

autistic spectrum.

The pack includes

A guide for people on the autism spectrum to helpthem have a good GP visit

A guide for GPs to support patients on the autism

spectrum during their appointment

Information from Newcastle University about two

national autistic spectrum disorders research

projects

Dr Maureen Baker, Chair of the Royal College of GPs

said: “I’m proud that the College is leading the way in

taking steps to ensure our patients on the autistic

spectrum receive the best possible, specific care they

need.”

More information can be found at

http://bit.ly/1XnDuz2

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Section 165 of the Equality Act 2010

Fantastic news for all wheelchair users.

The taxi campaign for equal fares for people inwheelchairs has been going for about 5 years.

Groups around the UK have been campaigning for evenlonger (since 1996) when the Disability Discrimination Actcame into force.

The section that they have been trying to get enacted is

165 which stops private hire taxi drivers charging extra orrefusing to accept a wheelchair user as a customer.

Transport minister Andrew Jones has now said thatsections 165 and 167 of the Equality Act 2010 will comeinto force this year, which he said will “impose duties onthe driver of a taxi to accept and assist a wheelchair-user

and not to charge extra for doing so”.

You can read about this here

http://bit.ly/1RoakZs

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Peer Educator Network – SeeAbility

SeeAbility are looking for self advocacy groups to join their

Peer Educator Network.

SeeAbility worked with Opening Doors an advocacy groupin Norfolk to make a training pack about eye care and whyit is important.

Each Group in the network is trained about eye care bySeeAbility and receive a pack with everything they need to

do the training.

The groups will then train people in their area about eyecare and why it is important.

They are looking to help self advocacy groups and givethem the information and skills to train people withlearning disabilities to look after their eyes.

There are already 10 groups who do this in the UK.

More information can be found at

http://bit.ly/1UfGrPG

or email Scott Watkin

[email protected]

or telephone

07860 756 342

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Staying Safe On the Internet Survey

Kathryn Bosson is doing a study at Northumbria University

about people with learning disabilities staying safe on theinternet, and about how people think about risk and trust.

Kathryn would like people with a mild learning disability tohelp with this, to take part you must be 18 or older anduse social networking sites (like Facebook) on the internetwithout supervision.

Here is a flyer about Kathryn’s survey

http://bit.ly/25y0b9Z

You can take part by doing the survey on the link below

http://bit.ly/1XLyepa

Or if you want more information you can email Kathryn at

[email protected]

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Bradford EU Referendum Workshop

Bradford People First’s Have Your Say group are holdinga workshop about the upcoming EU Referendum.

This will tell you more about what the referendum is andhow to go about voting.

This takes place on

2nd June

from

1.30pm to 3.00pm

There are limited spaces so you will need to book.

Here is the event flyer

http://bit.ly/1spg3tD

You can download the booking form here

http://bit.ly/1TOBoc4

Or for more information call

01274 744151

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York Disability Natter – disability, benefits andother matters.

York Independent Living Network are holding an event.

They want people with disabilities, families and carers toshare their views and ideas about

Disability Benefits

What has changed

What are the thing like for people in York

Steve Alitt from the Citizens Advice York will also be thereto talk about current issues with disability benefits.

The event is in

Hudson Room, City of York Council Offices, West OfficesStation Rise, York

On

29th June

From

6pm until 9pm

To book a place

Email [email protected]

Telephone or Text 07752 365 297

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Darlington Learning Impairment Network.

The latest open letter has been published from theDarlington Learning Impairment Network.

In the last open letter they set a challenge forprofessionals to think about the language they use todescribe people.

The open letter shares information for professionals onwhat people think should help with describing people

They want people to

Not use the word LD when describing disabledpeople

Challenge anyone you hear using it Talk to and agree with people with a learning

impairment about the words they are happy to use

The open letter can be found at

http://bit.ly/22oXKBb

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Lawnmowers 30th Year Celebrations

The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company is a

Gateshead based charity, formed in 1986 by a group of

adults with learning difficulties.

It uses the arts to support positive change in the lives of

people with learning difficulties.

As part of their 30th Birthday Celebrations The

Lawnmowers will be touring their Festival 30 Show ‘The

Red Book’ to theatres in the North East, and delivering

workshops for people with learning difficulties at their

space in Gateshead.

Two of the tour dates are sold out, you can still get tickets

for

6th June at Live Theatre, Newcastle

9th June at ARC, Stockton

There are lots of other events happening too, you can find

out more and book places on their website at

http://bit.ly/1NSch60

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What is coming up next at Inclusion North

8th June North East Safe Places Sharing event

13th June North East Advocacy and Negotiation for

Family Carers

15th June Yorkshire & Humber Lead Officers

20th June North East Talking Travel

23rd

June Yorkshire & Humber Family Carers

29th June North East Family Carers

30th

June Yorkshire & Humber Safe Places SharingEvent

12th July North East - Creative Communication

training

19th July Yorkshire & Humber - Creative

Communication training

If you would like to know more about any of these events

contact Marie on 0113 244 4792

[email protected]

If you would like any information on any of our

meetings, training or projects you can contact theoffice on:

Tel: 0113 244 4792

E-mail: [email protected]

Or you can write to us at:

Inclusion North CICWoodhouse Community Centre197 Woodhouse StreetLeeds, LS6 2NY

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You can visit our website at:www.inclusionnorth.org

Or you can contact any member of the Inclusion Northteam:

Samantha ClarkTel: 07823 536 603Email: [email protected]

Kellie Woodley

Tel: 07876 145 390

Email: [email protected]

Lucy VirgoTel: 07944 185771


Angela Ellis

Tel: 07487 729237


Kirsty Morgan

Tel: 07539 063467


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Ailis Hardy

Tel: 07767 776125


Inclusion North Member Areas 2016-17-

If you live in one of these areas you can come to ourmember events.

Yorkshire and the HumberBarnsleyBradfordCalderdaleDoncasterHullLeedsNorth Lincolnshire

North YorkshireSheffieldWakefieldYork

North EastDarlingtonDurham

GatesheadHartlepoolMiddlesbroughNewcastleNorth TynesideNorthumberlandRedcar and ClevelandSouth Tyneside

StocktonSunderland
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