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In this bulletin you will hear about some of thework Inclusion North is doing and informationabout what is happening across the country.

Find Inclusion North on Facebook and Twitter

 You can find out more about all the work we are doingby 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 ourBoard of Directors

The Board of Directors are the group of people who checkthe Company is doing a good job and following the law.

We are looking for a new Director because a Director hasgot a job and is too busy now.

We welcome applications from any self advocate leadersfrom Yorkshire, Humber and the North East.

We would really like a woman with a Learning Disability or

someone from a Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) communityto join our Board because at the moment these people arenot represented on our Board.

Inclusion North BulletinIssue Number 96

July 27th 2015

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  You can download the application pack on the link below

http://bit.ly/SelfAdvocateDirector  

You can also find an application form which you can returnto us, if you do not want to fill in the form you can send us atape or short film instead.

Which ever way you apply, we need you to return yourapplication to us by

12 noon on

14th September 2015.

Join Inclusion North as a Project SupportCoordinator

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 foreach post.

You can find out more about the vacancies and how to

apply on our website at

http://bit.ly/2ProjectSupport 

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  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 peoplewith learning disabilities after three separate reports

highlighted the need for change.

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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

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  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 Mathieson’s family his Disability

Living Allowance after Cameron went into hospital.

Cameron’s 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 

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  Consultation on the Mortality Review Programme

The new Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR)

Programme that has been commissioned by theHealthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) onbehalf of NHS England.

The aim of the Programme is to make improvements in thequality of health and social care service delivery for peoplewith learning disabilities and to help reduce early deathsand health inequalities faced by people with learning

disabilities, through national and local reviews of deaths.

The Programme has now started, and they would like toknow people’s 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.

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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 supportstaff, 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

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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 thataffect 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 

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  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 Right’s UK’s latest campaign,funded by Comic Relief.

This three year campaign aims to lower the gap inemployment between disabled people and non-disabledpeople. This will be done using existing spending bybusinesses and local government to make new jobs.

Disability Rights UK are looking for twelve young peoplewith disabilities aged 18-25 and living in one of thefollowing cities in England to volunteer on average one dayper week throughout the duration of the project

  Bristol  Birmingham

  Hull  Liverpool  Leeds  Leicester

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  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 statementsaying 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’ stylevideo booth where people could sit and talk about whatthey thought of the day.

We now have the video from this which you can watch onthe link below

http://bit.ly/1LHavk2 

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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 theoffice on: 

Tel: 0113 244 4792

E-mail: info@inclusionnorth.org 

Or you can write to us at:Inclusion North CICWoodhouse Community Centre197 Woodhouse Street

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Leeds, LS6 2NY

You can visit our website at:www.inclusionnorth.org 

Or you can contact any member of the Inclusion Northteam:

Samantha ClarkTel: 07823 536 603Email: 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 125Email: Rebecca@inclusionnorth.org 

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Inclusion North Member Areas 2015-16

If you live in one of these areas you can come to our

member events.

 Yorkshire and the HumberBarnsleyBradfordCalderdaleDoncasterHull

LeedsNorth LincolnshireNorth YorkshireSheffieldWakefieldYork

North EastDarlingtonDurhamGatesheadHartlepoolMiddlesbroughNewcastle

North TynesideNorthumberlandRedcar and ClevelandSouth TynesideStocktonSunderland