The Society for Children
and Adults with Learning
Disabilities and their Families
Supporting Campaigns
Lobbying MPs, ministers & agencies on legislation and policy changes
Helpline: 0161 474 7323
Here to help with questions relating to learning disability and its impact on family carers
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, please
- phone us on 0161 4747323, or
- email us at office@rescare.org.uk , or
- complete the online contact form (see our Contact page), or
- or download and send in the membership application form, available here for download in Word or PDF format.
(Membership currently costs £15 per year for Individual Membership and £20 for Family Membership).
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The Care Quality Commission's Annual Report 'The State of Care' has been published today, offering us the CQC's latest assessment of health care and social care in England. Access details of the report, view the Press Release launching it , and download the Summary and Full Report from this page on the CQC website. A key finding of the report is that "a better system of care is needed for people with a learning disability or autism who are, or are at risk of, being hospitalised, segregated and placed in overly restrictive environments". [ 436 more words ] CQC: “The care given to people with a learning disability or autism is not acceptable” Just received: a press release from the LGO, who is so concerned at the percentage rise in complaints about EHCPs, and in the proportion of complaints he upholds, that he has issued a special Focus Report on the failings of the SEND system. "Children with special educational needs and disabilities are increasingly being failed by the system designed to support them, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found. [ 360 more words ] Ombudsman issues special report on EHCPs and SEND – “A system in crisis?” Simon Baron-Cohen: ‘Neurodiversity is the next frontier. But we’re failing autistic people’ Simon Baron-Cohen: ‘Neurodiversity is the next frontier. But we’re failing autistic people’
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The Society for Children and Adults
with Learning Disabilities and their Families