The Society for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities and their Families
The Society for Children
and Adults with Learning Disabilities and their Families
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Membership
How to join us…
Membership of Rescare is available to individuals, families, and affiliated groups (charities, schools, etc.). Your membership of Rescare helps us to campaign on your behalf; to represent the interests of people with learning disabilities, their carers, and especially family carers.
Rescare has always tried to present the views and interests of its members in consultations undertaken by government departments (e.g. the Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions, the Ministry of Justice) and by bodies such as the Law Commission – and we continue to do so. We were closely involved in consultations prior to the publication of the Valuing People White Paper and the passing of Mental Capacity Act, and we take a special interest in the operation of the Office of the Public Guardian and the Court of Protection.
Members are entitled to contact our Helpline for advice and information.
Members receive a quarterly newsletter, Resnews, which aims to keep them up to date with issues in the learning disability sector, and with Rescare’s activities.
We have created an area of our website with access reserved for members. Details available here. This is being used initially to make back-issues of Resnews available as PDF documents.
We do not operate a forum, but we do encourage members to send us their views on issues related to learning disability (by post or email); we will consider publishing any submission online on our ‘Editorial and Letters‘ webpage, or in Resnews.
If you are interested in becoming a member:
- phone us on 0161 4747323, or
- email us at office@rescare.org.uk , or
- send us a message via the online contact form (see our Contact page), or
- or download and send in the membership application form, available here as Word or PDF format.
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Going slightly mad trying to maintain a web page on Covid-19 'Information and Advice'. I CAN say that latest guidance on any issue or sector will be on GOV.UK - but, hell's teeth, they do issue an incredible number of updates. The guidance on Supported Living (in which as a parent I have a personal interest) was updated again(!) on 25th November and is now as long as one of my old university essays. Just checked - 7815 words! The link is now on this page: www.rescare.org.uk/coronavirus-information-and-advice/ Coronavirus: Information and Advice - Rescare www.rescare.org.uk I had asked myself (and been asked) "Where are people with learning disabilities in 'schedule' for Covid-19 vaccination?". I have now learnt that they are in Priority Group 6. This article by Gus Alexiou argues that priority should be far higher... Covid-19 Vaccine Plans Must Prioritize People With Learning Disabilities www.forbes.com A depressing look into the future. At the back of my mind, I seem to remember commitments made at the start of the pandemic to reform of social care and to the need for the convergence of health and social care. Spending Review a ‘catastrophe’ for social care, say sector leaders www.homecareinsight.co.uk
The Society for Children and Adults
with Learning Disabilities and their Families