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Members Area – Welcome!
20th August 2016.
Welcome to our new ‘members area’. This is for the exclusive use of Rescare’s membership. We decided to create this area on our website so that members could have access to back-editions of Resnews. You will initially have access to 17 past editions, dating back to Spring 2012 when we first produced our newsletter in the PDF format; future editions of Resnews will also appear here.
We also intend to expand this section during the next few months to include more information about the Care Act and other topics that can affect our members, such as Best Interests and benefits. As always, we welcome feedback and suggestions on how we could improve.
Bill Fisher
Chief Executive
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The (in)accuracy of the 'learning disability register'. - Rescare
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Jo Whiley's story struck home – I was offered the vaccine before my severely disabled daughter
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There is understatement, and then there is a ministerial statement on 'the learning disability register' in a Lords debate yesterday. Arriving at a headcount of people with a learning disability in the UK, or in the constituent nations, is no simple matter. But it's not made easier, when sets of data are held by various NHS departments , Social Service departments, the Department for Education and The Department for Work and Pensions....
www.rescare.org.uk/the-inaccuracy-of-the-learning-disability-register/
Seeking signatures.... change.org petition to Stop the closure of HFT residential facility at Furlong Close, Rowde
www.change.org/p/hft-and-wiltshire-council-stop-the-closure-of-hft-in-rowde
Journalist Sam Carlisle reacts to story of Jo Whiley and Frances, with the story of her own daughter, Elvi. inews.co.uk/opinion/jo-whiley-covid-19-vaccine-learning-disabilities-874778 Even angrier than Ian Rankin! "What this pandemic will leave me with is the lasting knowledge that the lives of people with learning disabilities just do not matter to those who run our country."
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