A collaborative ESRC funded project to examine how adults with learning disability & their allies are self-building lives as day centre use declines @power_geog
*NEW REPORT*: Our report being launched today is based on a two-year ESRC-funded collaborative research project to find out how people with learning disabilities and their allies are creatively responding to personalisation in #socialcare. 1/14
Sad to hear from JP Donnelly @Googlemail8@GDA__online that the anxieties about Covid19 are still there. Not everyone is willing to be out and about meeting people #ReconnectingOurLives
Lovely to hear that @PeopleFirstDor membership has grown due to reaching out to people online and supporting people during Covid19 restrictions #ReconnectingOurLives
*New paper published today* Personalisation policy in the lives of people with learning disabilities: a call to focus on how people build their lives relationally @power_geog @m_nind @andycoverdale @DrHMac et al journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Let’s enable people to build meaningful lives through independent brokerage, advocacy, community embedded peer support and self-advocacy opportunities. selfbuildingourlives.org/new…
For those not able to take in our new report this morning, you could check out our short film on the ways some people with learning disabilities are being supported to self-build their lives: youtube.com/watch?v=oRKnVd5-…#SelfBuildingOurLives @m_nind
*NEW REPORT*: Our report being launched today is based on a two-year ESRC-funded collaborative research project to find out how people with learning disabilities and their allies are creatively responding to personalisation in #socialcare. 1/14
To read more and to take part in the conversation, please see our NEW REPORT here: selfbuildingourlives.org/res…. We look forward to hearing from you. 13/14
To read more about the project behind the report check out – selfbuildingourlives.org. Thanks go to our national level partners @TLAP and @SCIE, our funder @ESRC, our advisory group partners, and contributors at our national feedback event in London November 2019. 14/14