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Help pages within our
Valuing People website (this link will open in
a new window), giving comprehensive details of useful contacts
& organisations. This section includes help and advice
concerning the following areas:
- Information in Kent
- Teams in Kent
- General Information
- Useful Links
Department of Health sites
Social Care On-line
The UK's most extensive database of social care information.
Details of everything from research briefings to reports,
government documents, journal articles, and useful websites.
Updated daily by experienced information managers from the social
care institute for excellence.
Valuing People, a new strategy for learning
disability
Valuing People Support Team site. Includes latest news and
documents (including the Valuing People white paper).
Valuing People, Department of Health
Copies available of the government white paper (2001).
Local sites
Find A
Voice
Aims to help children and adults with communication
difficulties literally to 'Find A Voice'. They provide on-line
information to everyone and personal support to individuals, their
carers and professionals in Kent and Medway.
Skillnet
The Skillnet Group is a not for
profit organisation which supports learning disabled people in
Kent. We provide a wide range of support including self advocacy,
ASDAN and NIACE awards and qualifications, person centred planning,
G.P training, maths and money skills, computers and ICT,
independent living and lots more.
Other Interesting websites
Easyinfo
A new website about making information easier for people with
learning difficulties. The website is about bringing people
together, finding out about good ways of working and sharing
ideas.
Inclusion Europe
A non-profit organisation campaigning for the rights and interests
of people with intellectual disability and their families
throughout Europe.
Jobcentre Plus
In some areas Jobcentre Plus offices are already offering fully
integrated work and benefit services.
The
National Care Standards Commission
A new, independent public body set up under the Care Standards Act
2000, to regulate social care and private and voluntary health care
services throughout England.
PCP-in-Hampshire
A website about person centred planning in Hampshire. It is a good
source of information an person centred planning and how to get
person centred planning started.
Trans-Active
A project in which teenagers with and without severe learning
disabilities work together. They use multimedia to explore and
communicate choices they will have when they leave school.
National organisations
British
Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD)
Provides information, publications and training and consultancy
services for organisations and individuals.
The Foundation for People with a Learning
Disability
A leading UK charity researching learning disability issues. Here
you will find the latest news and events on learning disability
issues, as well as information on topics such as advocacy,
accommodation and employment.
MENCAP
A major national Charity working with people with a learning
disability, and their families and carers.
The North West
Training and Development Team
A small not for profit making training and development team jointly
funded by local authorities, health commissioning agencies in the
Northwest and national grants.
Paradigm
A consultancy and development agency with a difference - formed by
people with a wealth of real current experience in inclusion,
health, social services, community care and organisational
development.
Step
by Step
A support site to assist people with learning disabilities to find
the home they want and the money they need to pay for it.
The
Tizard Centre
One of the leading UK academic groups in the UK working in learning
disability, mental health and services for older
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