Please sign and share this extremely important petition.

The Stolen Lives campaign is calling on Welsh Government to stop the detention of people with a learning disability and autistic people in hospitals:

petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2461…

#HomesNotHospitals

This is a fine day to recall that 40 years Wales had the courage and the words - And led the world - to end the damage of institutional care on people with learning disabilities and their families - it must find these again now and end it forever #stolenlives

Very hard to know what to say. I say that a lot these days. Love to J’s family. Cwtch to GJ. Need to read it in full.

Where can we take for it now?
Adrian Roper highlights three pieces of Welsh Gov legislation that can support us returning to the core values the All Wales Strategy promoted.
-Rebalancing the Market
-Eradicating profit from children's services
-Creating section 16 forums
#UDIDDAWS

Great #UDIDDAWS event to mark All Wales Strategy 40th Anniversary. Informative presentations ⁦Edward Oloidi⁩ ⁦Gerraint Griff⁩ ⁦Stuart Todd⁩ ⁦Diverse Cymru⁩ ⁦Cartrefi Cymru Co-op⁩. ⁦All Wales Forum⁩ ’not professionals place 2 keep info from families’

#UDIDDAWS thank you to everyone for making today a great one - well known faces meeting newer ones, stories of 40 mixing with commitment to taking on the next 40- thank you

A fantastic TV report was broadcast this evening by Garry Owen and the BBC Wales team about the the Engage to Change project and the need for a national job coaching service in Wales 🎥📺

TV report here: lnkd.in/eGhPYb9T

Good luck to Learning Disability Wales for their South Wales version of their Annual Conference in Newport today.

Conference booking for our event will close later today- there may be some leeway for later bookings - get in touch with myself or Edward Oloidi for more details- but in the meantime.....
udidd.research.southwales.ac.uk/news/looking-b…

Booking for our conference on the 40 years since the launch of the All Wales Strategy will close on Monday at 4pm. So just a little time left to take up a place. udidd.research.southwales.ac.uk/news/looking-b…

Thank you Paula Phillips Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) developing tier 2 & 3: Learning disability educational framework for healthcare staff that embeds the voice of all stakeholders is paramount to the success of this work. Great input from Health Sciences Bangor Betsi Cadwaladr Paul Taylor 💙 Paul Ridd Foundation

Today's conference Love Your Health is being brilliantly chaired by our Gig Buddies Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👩🏾‍🎤💃👨🏽‍🎤 volunteer Victoria Waller. And now she's taking part in the Hijinx Theatre drama #LoveYourHealth23

The All Wales Strategy was more than an institutional closure programme. Then as now most people lived with families. What did the Strategy mean for families - what has happened since - and the future? Join us to hear about family responses to those udidd.research.southwales.ac.uk/news/looking-b…

What is different after 40 years - many good things. Are they fragile or enduring.? Would we have thought about ethnicity, would people with LD have an audience and a voice And health? It's all yes to those here udidd.research.southwales.ac.uk/news/looking-b…

Covering 40 years since the AWS and then the future into one inclusive event means tough programming and the need for excellent chairing- so who are we going to call? Ruth Northway RN(LD) FRCN FLSW, FQNI - good luck! Places are limited so please register your place soon here- udidd.research.southwales.ac.uk/news/looking-b…

.University of South Wales are holding a conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the All Wales Strategy for People with Learning Disabilities - 27 November 2023, Radisson Blu Cardiff.

To register your interest, and for more information, please message Edward Oloidi

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Join us to help set out ambitions for working together to build optimism over the next 40 years.

Date: 27th November 2023 Venue: Radisson Blu Cardiff.

To register your interest please DM this account. Please share.

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With our partners, we are hosting an event to celebrate the AWS with reflections and evidence on the impact of COVID on people with learning disabilities and those who support them - an event to reconnect our futures with our pasts, evidence with experience

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'Looking back at, looking forward: what are strategies needed for the next 40 years'. 2023 is the 40th anniversary of the All Wales Strategy. What are its lessons for the post COVID lives of people with learning disability, families and services in Wales?

We’re recruiting a Senior Research Assistant (0.6 FTE) to work for 3 years as part of a large NIHR-funded RCT testing the impact of E-PAtS (Early Positive Approaches to Support), a caregiver programme for families of young children with intellectual disability. Details here👇