email bulletin issue 2 summer

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Email Bulletin Issue 2 summer2012

Dear Member

Learning Disability Week 2012 MondayJune 18th Sunday June 24th

This year it will build on the great work of LearningDisability week 2011, which saw the launch of theStand by me campaign on hate crime.

Outside of London the work will focus on influencingthe candidates who are standing for election aspolice and crime commissioners. Here in Harrow

as the Metropolitan police have signed up to theStand by me charter we will continue our work inraising public awareness of how hate crimeremains one of the biggest barriers to independentliving for disabled people .

You can find out more about the Stand by meCampaign herehttp://www.mencap.org.uk/campaigns/take-action/stand-me
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We have a full programme of activities during thecourse of the week. If you want to take part pleasecontact the Campaign and Community BusinessUnit 0n 0208 423 7382

Or just pop along and see us at one of the eventsbelow

Saturday 16th June at 7pm Blasts of Bollywood atZoroastrian Centre 442-452 Alexandra Ave SouthHarrow Rayners Lane. Tickets from HarrowMencap 020 8869 8484

Monday 18th we will be giving outinformation and advice at St Georges ShoppingCentre

Tuesday 19th June we will be giving outinformation advice at Rayners Lane Library


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Tuesday 19th the members and staff of theactivity centre will be taking part in a sponsoredswim at Harrow Leisure centre

See why they are doing this here:https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Community-

Solutions/263985663648234

Wed 20th 12-6 The official launch of ournew day service at Pinner Green with the Mayor

and others in attendance.

Thursday 21st June we will be doing ourannual walk round Harrow to raise awareness

Friday Drop in coffee morning at Pinner Greenfrom 10-12
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Care cant wait

Before the Queens Speech the Care and Supportalliance wrote an open letter to the prime minsterDavid Cameron asking him to show leadership onSocial Care reform.

A draft bill on overhauling care and support forelderly and disabled people in England wasannounced in the Queen's Speech.

The bill will put "people in control of their care and

give them greater choice, ministers say.

The difficult issue of how social care is paid for isstill unclear.

Discussions are currently taking place between thepolitical parties on how social care should be

reformed. A White Paper was expected beforeEaster, but is now due to be published later thismonth or in June.

You can find out more about the Care andSupport Alliance Here

http://careandsupportalliance.wordpress.com/
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Special Educational Needs

Parents are to be given more financial control oversupport for children with special educational needs,in a major shake-up of the system in England.

The government says it wants to push ahead withproposals announced last year that parents shouldhave a "personal budget" for their children.

The changes could also see fewer children in thespecial needs category.

Children's minister Sarah Teather said the currentsystem was "outdated and not fit for purpose".

The government is setting out its response to lastyear's green paper on special educational needs -which warned that too many parents felt frustrated

with having to "battle" against the system.It also said that too many children were beinglabelled as having special needs - with more thanone in five pupils currently in this category.

It called for parents to be given more control overspending the budgets available to help theirchildren.


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Ministers now want to press ahead with thisproposal, so that by 2014 parents would have theright to buy in services, rather than relying on the

options decided by local authorities and supportagencies.

This is intended to help parents ensure a morepersonalised package of support for their child.

However some people are concerned that the

government wish to reduce the number of childrenlabelled as having special needs will make it moredifficult for children to get support if they need it .

You can find out more about the Special EducationGreen Paper herehttps://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/Green-Paper-SEN.pdf

Agreeing together

The Learning Disability Coalition has launched a newreport - 'Agreeing Together - a contract for the future' -

which sets out changes that need to be made to make life

better for people with learning disabilities.

Agreeing together is a set of 15 agreements of what

needs to happen to make sure that people with a learning

disability can live the lives they want to lead. The
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agreements have been created from the ideas of many

people with a learning disability. In the report 9 leaders

with a learning disability tell us why they are so important.

There is nothing exceptional about these agreements.

They are the everyday rights that everybody should

expect. But for people with a learning disability these

everyday rights are not always respected

You can see the report here

http://www.learningdisabilitycoalition.org.uk/latestnews.as

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Freedom Pass

Some people have contacted us because

they have received letters saying they do not

meet the criteria for the Freedom Pass.

Please do not panic if you receive one of these

letters. Please contact us and we will supportyou appeal this decision
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Relief Staff Wanted

Community Solutions our innovativecommunity based service which specialises inputting together individual support packagesbased on the wishes and needs of those wesupport. These include areas such asincreasing leisure, social and employmentopportunities, travel training, budgeting, usingthe gym, swimming, building friendship andsupport networks, etc.

We are looking for enthusiastic people to joinour team of Relief Support Workers to supportpeople with learning disabilities living in andaround the Harrow area. This is a goodopportunity for people looking to work flexiblyfrom just a couple of hours a week upwardsRates of pay are from 6.50 to 7.44 an hourand there are opportunities for NVQ trainingPlease [email protected] orLynn.paterson@harrowmencap [email protected] 02088698481
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