| What's new from BILD |
A voice of their own – good practice in advocacy
Ramada
Plaza, Wrexham, Thursday 19 June 2008
The main aims of the conference are to:
- Identify how all those involved can deliver the best possible advocacy so that
people with learning disabilities are supported to be independent and have
choices
and rights like everyone else
- Learn about good practice in advocacy and how those ideas can be shared
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| What's happening |
Launch of the PMLD Network
website
BILD is a member of the PMLD Network which is a group of people and
organisations working together to improve the lives of people with profound and
multiple learning disabilities (PMLD).
The PMLD Network has just launched their new website
www.pmldnetwork.org
Please visit it and find out more about what they do and how you can get
involved.
CSCI is carrying out a major review of the eligibility criteria that councils use to decide whether or not a person receives help from the council with social care services. Find out how you can help in carrying out this review
More about what's happening in learning disabilities
| Your news |
Telling
tales
The work of Robin Meader, artistic director of the
Unlimited Company, is
featured in the April 2008 issue of Mencap's Viewpoint magazine.
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download
Moveable
Feast, have created a new inclusive pop group called
MiXiT. They are being supported by two great production teams Talentstar and
Jal productions.
They are hoping to make MiXiT a worldwide internet phenomenon so that they can
show people with and without disabilities working together in harmony.
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