
Publish date: 19th October 2017
The Representative Body aims to challenge national funding issues, improve opportunities, and change attitudes towards people with learning disabilities. With this ethos in mind all those involved were shocked to learn that a nurse who punched someone under his care so hard in the face that he broke his jaw and knocked out two of his teeth has been judged 'fit to practise' by the Nursing and Midwifery Council! This simply cannot be allowed to go unchallenged so the Representative Body has written a letter to the Council that you can read here. If you feel as strongly about this as we do please share this letter with as many people as possible and hopefully together we can get justice for the young man concerned and ensure that the culprit never has the opportunity to work with people with a learning disability ever again.
This is the heart warming and inspirational film (brilliantly produced by Satye Films) of Sophie who, together with Cornwall Partners in Policy Making, we were privileged to have worked with to help her buy a home of her own.
If you rely on lifelong disability benefits for your income it may be possible to do just that.
Wishing all of our home owners and supporters a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.