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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
Why join Rescare:
Since 1984 Rescare has campaigned for families of learning disabled people. Individuals, families and affiliated groups (local support groups, charities, schools, etc. can all join). Annual membership is £20.
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.
Member benefits:
Members are entitled to contact our Helpline for advice and information.
Members receive a quarterly newsletter, Resnews, which keeps 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.
How to join:
Need a form posting to you?
- email us at office@rescare.org.uk , or
- send us a message via the online contact form (see our Contact page)
- phone us on 0161 474 7323 (during Covid 19 please use 07904 403 721, but please use the above methods if possible as this is also our helpline number)
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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
inews.co.uk
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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