Our mission is to create a Wales that values and includes every child, young person and adult with a learning disability. We do this through working with people with a learning disability and their families, Welsh Government, local authorities, disabled people’s organisations and the voluntary sector so we can create a better Wales for all people with a learning disability.
Policy work is a central part of fulfilling this vision. We are working actively to:
- Create a society that includes, values and respects people with a learning disability.
- Create an inclusive education system for children and adults with and without a learning disability.
- Close the learning disability employment gap.
- Create a political system in which laws, policy and practice is co-produced with people with a learning disability and in which disabled people have real control in making decisions about issues that affect them.
- Ensure that people with a learning disability have control of their own lives.
Keep up-to-date with all our policy work at our news section and our Twitter and Facebook social pages.
For more information on our policy work please get in touch with our Policy Officer Grace Krause. Email grace.krause@ldw.org.uk or phone 029 2068 1160.
Policy briefing – March 2020
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Sources used in the policy briefing:
- Contact (2018): Counting The Cost – Research into the finances of more than 2,700 families across the UK in 2018 (opens as PDF)
- Mencap (2016): First in-depth research on public attitudes towards learning disability for 30 years’ reveals confusion, support yet small group of negative attitudes
- Mencap (2019): New research from Mencap shows bullying of people with a learning disability leading to social isolation
- NHS Digital (2018): Measures from the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, England, 2018-19
- Safe Lives (2017): Disabled Survivors Too: Disabled people and domestic abuse
- Shane Mills, Martyn French and Adrian Clarke (2020): Improving Care, Improving Lives -Chief Nursing Officer’s National Care Review of Learning Disabilities Hospital Inpatient Provision Managed or Commissioned by NHS Wales
- Welsh Government (2018): Learning Disability – Improving Lives Program
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