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The new BILD Guides - the information you need for only £2

We have launched five new BILD Guides, all 20 A5 pages long, all priced at £2 each. Their aim is to give the right information on their subject, with stories from the real experts in the subject - people with learning disabilities - and lots of practical examples of best practice. Written by experts in their field, some guides aim to help people do their jobs, plan services and deliver support in person-centred ways, others campaign to improve rights and respect for people with learning disabilities.
 

BILD Guide: An introduction to personalisation
Jenny Pitts
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BILD Guide: Personalisation for community teams
Jenny Pitts
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BILD Guide: Personalisation for people and organisations delivering direct support
Jenny Pitts
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BILD Guide: Communication is a human right
Sue Thurman
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BILD Guide: Making complaints work for people with learning disabilities
Sue Thurman
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Hate Crime – BILD’s response to the cross-government Action Plan

The Government has published an Action Plan for tackling hate crime.
Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, identifies in the foreword to the Action Plan that “hate crime is a human rights issue, a threat to community cohesion and a rejection of our shared values. Our society is strong when our communities are strong and communities thrive when they are united by positive values they share. Values like fairness, respect, democracy and the rule of law.”

Unfortunately, the need for this action plan has been reinforced by the sad and totally unnecessary deaths of Fiona and Francesca Pilkington. Their daily harassment was hate crime, and should not be viewed as simply the ordinary problems of community living.

Read more about BILD's response, available to download here.

The Government's Action Plan can be downloaded here. There is an easy read version you can download here.

Learning to Tell - a handbook for inclusive storytelling

Nicola Grove

To support the development of inclusive storytelling, this new and exciting resource from BILD has been specifically designed to help people to find personal meaning in traditional stories, and so make links between a legend and their own lives.

The resource aims to enable people who are marginalised through communication and language difficulties, to develop skills in narrative and story. The role of stories in their lives is the same as for everyone else – stories are fun and interesting, help you to make friends, understand the world and develop your imagination.

You can use these practical materials flexibly or integrate them into a more formal course for accreditation on the Open College Network course Inclusive Storytelling. With a raft of information, games, activities and stories, and an accompanying DVD containing video footage and PDFs of forms, this resource can help students develop the ability to narrate, which is fundamental to human experience.

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Making Valuing Employment Now happen

26 February 2010, St John’s Hotel, Solihull

FREE EVENT

Valuing Employment Now is the new Government strategy to enable people with learning disabilities to
get paid jobs.  

This conference will include speakers from across the UK, as well as local people who have already found jobs. There will be workshops looking at overcoming some of the barriers to employment, and hearing of people’s success stories.

Download the information leaflet and booking form
 

BILD is learning from the PAST

BILD have obtained funding from the Department of Health for a project that will  gather stories from the black and minority ethnic communities around good practice in advocacy and the personalisation agenda.

We have called the project the PAST project: Personal Advocacy Story Telling. We are aiming to set up focus groups who we hope will be able to share their stories.

Our main aim is to share the stories which we hope will enable Black and Minority Ethnic communities, health and social care practitioners and commissioning organisations to learn from people's experiences of advocacy.

You can find out more on our PAST project page in the human rights section of this website.

Dublin 2010: BILD's International Research and Practice conference

5 to 7 May 2010 – The Grand Hotel, Malahide, Dublin

This International Research and Practice Conference will be the 10th annual behaviour support event hosted by the British Institute of Learning Disability (BILD). These events have traditionally focused on best practice in the use of physical interventions, and the drive to create and further raise standards in training and practice has often led to constructive debate on a range of controversial issues such as mechanical restraint, seclusion and the use of chemical restraint.

The event will balance research and practice with a range of speakers and practice based workshops. Using an established and successful format, this will be a great opportunity to hear from acknowledged experts in the field and to gain a wealth of knowledge, engage in debate and exchange new ideas over two busy days.

You can find out more on the Dublin 2010 page in the behaviour support section of this website or download the information leaflet and booking form.
 

 

Hearing from the Seldom Heard - a new resource

People with learning disabilities face many barriers in being able to complain about the services they receive. 

The Hearing from the Seldom Heard project which ran from April 2008 until March 2009 was funded by the Department of Health and undertaken by the British Institute of Learning Disabilities. It aimed to look at how to overcome barriers and create listening cultures within organizations to hear from those who are seldom heard.

More details about the report, and the report's files available to download are now available on our website.

 

 Learning disability community

Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards publications

The Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty safeguards (formerly known as the Bournewood safeguards) were introduced into the Mental Capacity Act 2005 through the Mental Health Act 2007 (which received Royal Assent in July 2007).

'The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and You' and   'Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Guide for families and carers', as well as a link to easy read publications about Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are available on this page

'Six Lives: the provision of public services to people with learning disabilities'

An independent report, ‘Six Lives: the provision of public services to people with learning disabilities’, was published 24th March 2009 by the Health Service and Local Government Ombudsmen. Focusing on investigations into the deaths of six individuals, it calls for an urgent review of health and social care for people with learning disabilities. BILD welcomes ‘ an honest report’ but has doubts about how real change will be made to happen for people with a learning disability
For more information and BILD's response in full click here.

For more information and BILD's response in full click here.

 

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BILD's review of the past year is now available to download in pdf format.

Download the BILD 2008-09 annual review.




Positive behaviour support: defining good practice for children and young people

12 March, Warwick

This event will highlight positive ways of working and discuss how we can recognise and address poor practice. The event will seek to explore aspects of positive behaviour support while also discussing:
• reducing the use of reactive management
strategies
• the importance of policy development
• the importance of workforce support
and development
• changing the operational environment and culture

Download full details and a booking form. You can also book by telephoning 01562 723025.


BILD Qualifications

IMCA Conversion

BILD can now offer a flexible conversion service for practising Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCAs) who have completed their four day DoH approved training and now need to complete the IMCA unit from the Level 3 Certificate in Independent Advocacy.

More details on our Qualifications service page.


BILD's 2009/2010
conferences and events programme


 Find out more about the full range of conferences and events or to book them online

Latest book out now



Ethical approaches to physical interventions
Volume II. Changing the agenda

Edited by David Allen

The topic of physical intervention is still hugely important: the abuse of such interventions features all too regularly in national scandals, and people with intellectual disabilities and other individuals with complex needs are still dying in the UK as a result of the use of inappropriate restraint.
 
Through rigorous analysis of current policies and practices, careful examination of physical interventions and abusive practices, and clear discussion of objectives and needs for the future, this new publication offers a major overview of key developments and current best practice in the field.

2009   
ISBN 978 1 905218 11 0      
Publication cost: £25

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Discover what's new in the field of learning disabilities



Do you know that each month BILD publishes its Current Awareness Service (CAS), a service that keeps readers up to date with everything new in learning disabilities?

See the CAS pages for more information.



BILD Publications:



Down’s syndrome
and dementia- A resource for carers and support staff
Second Edition

Karen Dodd, Vicky Turk and Michelle Christmas

2009
ISBN 978 1 905218 08 0
£20

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Supporting parents and carers - A trainer’s guide to positive behaviour strategies

Sharon Paley, Chris Stirling and Mark Wakefield

2008
ISBN 978 1 905218 07 3
£25 (inc. VAT)

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