Inclusion North Bulletin

Issue Number 96
July 27th 2015
In this bulletin you will hear about some of the
work Inclusion North is doing and information
about what is happening across the country.

Find Inclusion North on Facebook and Twitter

You can find out more about all the work we are doing
by following us on Facebook and twitter at:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/InclusionNorth

Twitter: @InclusionNorth

Join Our Board as Self Advocate Director

We are looking for a new Self Advocate Director to join our
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors are the group of people who check
the Company is doing a good job and following the law.
We are looking for a new Director because a Director has
got a job and is too busy now.
We welcome applications from any self advocate leaders
from Yorkshire, Humber and the North East.
We would really like a woman with a Learning Disability or
someone from a Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) community
to join our Board because at the moment these people are
not represented on our Board.

You can download the application pack on the link below

http://bit.ly/SelfAdvocateDirector
You can also find an application form which you can return
to us, if you do not want to fill in the form you can send us a
tape or short film instead.
Which ever way you apply, we need you to return your
application to us by

12 noon on

14th September 2015.

Join Inclusion North as a Project Support

Coordinator
We have vacancies for 2 Project Support Coordinator
posts, one based at our office in Leeds, the other
homeworking in the North East.
Salary is up to 32,000 pro rota, hours 22.5 a week for
each post.

You can find out more about the vacancies and how to
apply on our website at

http://bit.ly/2ProjectSupport

Transforming Care Update

Winterbourne View Time is Running Out

Sir Stephen Bubb has published his 6 month review of the
progress being made by the Transforming Care
programme to act on the recommendations of his earlier
report Winterbourne View - Time for Change.

Sir Stephen says that while there is a lot to praise about

NHS England and their partners in the approach they have
taken to try and change things, there has not been a lot of
real progress.

You can see the report here http://bit.ly/1eiFs0D

There is an EasyRead version of the report too

http://bit.ly/1CWsxgD

Urgent action pledged on over-medication

NHS England has promised quick and on going action to
stop the over-prescribing of psychotropic drugs to people
with learning disabilities after three separate reports
highlighted the need for change.

Research has found that there is a much higher rate of

prescribing of medicines associated with mental illness
amongst people with learning disabilities, often without
clear reason, medications being used for too long without
review and poor communications between parents, carers
and different healthcare providers.

You can read more about this at

http://bit.ly/1VAeC5Y

There is guidance for patients, families and carers that you

can read at
http://bit.ly/1DyfoFj

The guidance is also available in EasyRead

http://bit.ly/1JAByJb

Supreme Court overturns DWP's 'grossly unfair'

withdrawal of DLA from child in hospital

In 2010, The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

stopped giving Cameron Mathiesons family his Disability
Living Allowance after Cameron went into hospital.

Camerons family took the DWP to court, and in early July

the Supreme Court judges agreed that the DWP had been
"grossly unfair" when it stopped his payments after 84
days.

A panel of three judges concluded they "violated

[Cameron's] human rights under article 14 of the
convention" and "acted unlawfully in making the decision."

Cameron died in 2012, his family said they had continued

the fight over Disability Living Allowance (DLA) "on behalf
of other families".

This judgement enables around 500 other families in a

similar situation to seek to get their DLA reinstated too.

You can read more about this on the link

http://bbc.in/1Lwsr23

Consultation on the Mortality Review Programme

The new Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR)
Programme that has been commissioned by the
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) on
behalf of NHS England.
The aim of the Programme is to make improvements in the
quality of health and social care service delivery for people
with learning disabilities and to help reduce early deaths
and health inequalities faced by people with learning
disabilities, through national and local reviews of deaths.

The Programme has now started, and they would like to

know peoples opinions about how they do the work.
If you want to take part in this consultation, you can do the
questionnaire on the link below

http://bit.ly/1Ing73L

If you would prefer a paper version of the consultation

document, contact Pauline Heslop at
Pauline.Heslop@bristol.ac.uk
or phone
0117 3310973

The last time you can take part is 9am on Monday 10th
August.

The Budget in July 2015

The budget is when the government set out the big plans
for the money and policies for how government money is
spent in the next year or 2. There was a budget on 8th July
Lots of different organisations do a summary of what they
think are the main points:
United Response Easy News special
http://bit.ly/1em1Ben

This is what Disability Rights UK said are the main points

http://bit.ly/1KmEf3Y

Age UK's briefing on it is at

http://bit.ly/1DylqG9

The Local Government Association briefing is at

http://bit.ly/1Io67aq

Safeguarding Booklets and DVDs

Speakup have already produced a series of resources that
councils, providers, trainers, teachers in Colleges and self
advocates can use to support the understanding of abuse
and also developed a Safeguarding booklet for support
staff, or self advocates to use with vulnerable people to
enable them to understand what abuse is.

They have now added to this a new booklet on elder abuse

to aid understanding for this age group, in full colour with
graphics and plain English text.

If you want to find out about getting copies of this, you can
email
Adrian@speakup.org.uk

Dominic Slowie interviewed by My Life My

Choice
My Life My Choice interviewed Dominic Slowie, the
National Clinical Director for Learning Disabilities for NHS
England. They talked about a lot of different issues that
affect the healthcare of people who have a learning
disability.
They talked about so many different things that My Life My
Choice will be releasing short videos of parts of the
interview over the next 15 weeks.
This week they have videos of Dominic introducing himself
and explaining what he does for the NHS, and talking
about his experiences of caring for his daughter Mia who
has a learning disability.
You can see the videos here http://bit.ly/1g7LbIp

A Magna Carta for learning disabled people

The Magna Carta was a law document the king signed 800
years ago, that is seen as the first time people in England
were given rights.
Kaliya Franklin and Gary Bourlet of People First England
have written about how they think learning disabled people
need a Magna Carta of their own, to give them rights so
that they are not so vulnerable to decisions about their lives
being made for them by commissioners, social workers,
doctors or care providers.
You can read their article here http://bit.ly/1Ik7W8k

I Can Make It

I Can Make It is Disability Rights UKs latest campaign,

funded by Comic Relief.
This three year campaign aims to lower the gap in
employment between disabled people and non-disabled
people. This will be done using existing spending by
businesses and local government to make new jobs.

Disability Rights UK are looking for twelve young people

with disabilities aged 18-25 and living in one of the
following cities in England to volunteer on average one day
per week throughout the duration of the project

Bristol
Birmingham
Hull
Liverpool
Leeds
Leicester

Newcastle
Manchester
Nottingham
Southampton
Sheffield

If you wish to apply please e-mail Leo Capella

leo.capella@disabilityrightsuk.org
with your CV, confirmation of your age and a statement
saying why you want to volunteer for this project.
Or for more information you can call
0207 250 8193
Or see their website at
www.icanmakeit.me.uk

Together North East Festival Video Booth

At the festival on 27th June we had a Big Brother style
video booth where people could sit and talk about what
they thought of the day.
We now have the video from this which you can watch on
the link below
http://bit.ly/1LHavk2

What is coming up next at Inclusion North

4th September

Yorkshire & Humber Lead Officers

7th September

South Tees Provider Forum

8th September IHAL (Improving Health and Lives)

advisory group
10th September Yorkshire & Humber Family Carers
network
25th September North East Learning Disability Partnership
1st October

Keeping Strong for Families Darlington

If you would like to know more about any of these events

contact Claire or Marie on 0113 244 4792
claire@inclusionnorth.org
marie@inclusionnorth.org

If you would like any information on any of our

meetings, training or projects you can contact the
office on:
Tel: 0113 244 4792
E-mail: info@inclusionnorth.org

Or you can write to us at:

Inclusion North CIC
Woodhouse Community Centre
197 Woodhouse Street

Leeds, LS6 2NY

You can visit our website at:
www.inclusionnorth.org
Or you can contact any member of the Inclusion North
team:
Samantha Clark
Tel: 07823 536 603
Email: Samantha@inclusionnorth.org

Kellie Woodley
Tel: 07876 145 390
Email: Kellie@inclusionnorth.org

Lucy Virgo
Tel: 07944 185771
Email: Lucyvirgo@inclusionnorth.org

Angela Ellis
Tel: 07487 729237
Email: Angela@inclusionnorth.org

Rebecca Stanley
Tel: 07767 776 125
Email: Rebecca@inclusionnorth.org

Inclusion North Member Areas 2015-16

If you live in one of these areas you can come to our
member events.
Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley
Bradford
Calderdale
Doncaster
Hull
Leeds
North Lincolnshire
North Yorkshire
Sheffield
Wakefield
York

North East
Darlington
Durham
Gateshead
Hartlepool
Middlesbrough
Newcastle
North Tyneside
Northumberland
Redcar and Cleveland
South Tyneside
Stockton
Sunderland