We have been delighted to welcome five new members of staff to the Learning Disability Wales team recently. Over the past few weeks we have been introducing our new staff and asking them how their roles will help us to create a Wales that values and includes every child, young person and adult with a … Continued
Over the past few weeks we have been introducing the five new members of staff who have recently joined Learning Disability Wales. Today we introduce Rebecca Chan, our new Accessible Information Officer, who will be working on our expanded Easy Read Wales team. “I am very excited to join Learning Disability Wales as an Accessible … Continued
We recently introduced Lyndsey Richards as one of five new members of staff. We are pleased to introduce another new member of staff, Angela Kenvyn, who will be managing the national Engage to Change employment project. Angela will be co-ordinating the Engage to Change partnership and managing delivery of the project across Wales. Angela has … Continued
We are delighted to welcome five new members of staff to the Learning Disability Wales team. Lyndsey Richards is our new Projects Manager, and will be managing our work with Gig Buddies, parents with a learning disability, and the Welsh Youth Parliament, as well as developing new projects. Lyndsey joins us following a career spanning … Continued
We are excited to welcome five new members of staff to our team at Learning Disability Wales. Over the next few weeks we will be introducing each new member of staff. Zoe Richards, our Acting Chief Executive, explains how our newly expanded team will have a significant impact on our work, and how we engage … Continued
When Sophie first moved into a mirus house in 2017 she was very shy and reserved. Sophie didn’t have much confidence and was fearful to go out by herself. Through skills teaching and confidence building Sophie started off small by going to the shop by herself using the maps facility on her smartphone. Sophie then … Continued
Last year Katie Cooke helped to deliver the Measuring the Mountain project, working with people and organisations across Wales to gather 473 stories about people’s experiences of social care, and conducting a Citizens’ Jury to examine the question ‘what really matters in social care to individuals in Wales?’ The project was funded by Welsh Government … Continued
Eight years after the UK government and the care industry said ‘never again’ following the Winterbourne View scandal, another BBC Panorama investigation – this time exposing the horrific abuse at Whorlton Hall hospital in County Durham, England – has shown that ‘never again’ seems a long way off. Zoe Richards, Acting Chief Executive of Learning … Continued
The All Wales Forum of Parents and Carers have released a new film about the rights of parents and family carers under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act. The short film includes two carers discussing their experience of the Act, how becoming aware of their rights has affected them and the changes they have … Continued
Women with learning disabilities are at risk of becoming drawn into the criminal justice system due to failures to recognise their disability and a lack of appropriate support, according to a new report published by the Prison Reform Trust and KeyRing Living Support Networks. The report, Out of the Shadows, draws on the experiences of 24 … Continued
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