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Our priorities for our work with people with Learning Disabilities includes the following programmes:
The National Development Team for inclusion, in partnership with My Life My Choice and Bemix have been chosen by Health Education England, Skills for Care and the Department of Health and Social care to be...
"People with learning disabilities have poorer health than their non-disabled peers, yet differences inhealth status are, to an extent, avoidable. The health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities in the UK start early in...
Making sure people who work in NHS trusts have the training they need to support people with learning disabilities
Coronovirus (Covid-19) is causing huge upheaval to everyone, especially to the lives of older and disabled people. NDTi is working on a range of issues, all of which are focused on ensuring that the implementation...
Talking to Siraaj and Jackie from Changing Our Lives about how their quality of life reviews contributed to the 200 Lives research project: Evaluating supported living and residential care for adults with learning disabilities
Nick shares his journey towards reasonable adjustments in healthcare for his son Alex.
The Henry Smith Charity, a grant-making trust, is launching a new grants programme to support advocacy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
It’s time to take responsibility. Jane Friswell and Bill Love reflect on placements, secure settings and failing people.
This three-part podcast addresses the common questions young people with additional needs have about applying to, choosing and attending university.
Reflections from Staffordshire University's AccessAbility ServicesThrough our delivery of Time to Talk, we heard about Staffordshire University’s work to make transitioning into Higher Education as smooth as possible for autistic students and students with learning...
A Mother, Carer and "Expert by Experience" of the Care and Treatment Review process offers her views on the recent Mental Health White Paper and discusses what the changes could mean.
“I don't want my family to not have me around,” Scott Watkin, NDTI board member and SeeAbility head of engagement, told Radio 4’s Today programme this week. Scott added: “We know from what Public Health...
NDTi are one of the partners on a new research study exploring people with learning disabilities’ experiences of the coronavirus pandemic. It is a UK wide study aiming to speak directly to 1000 people with...
Two reports last week highlighted the health inequalities that people with learning disabilities face.
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) was commissioned in 2019 by the South Regional Health Education England Intellectual Disabilities programme to find and share best practice in training people who work in NHS Trusts...
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) was commissioned in 2019 by the South Regional Health Education England Intellectual Disabilities programme to find and share best practice in training people who work in NHS Trusts...
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) was commissioned in 2019 by the South Regional Health Education England Intellectual Disabilities programme to find and share best practice in training people who work in NHS Trusts...
During 2020/21, Anna Marriott from NDTi was part of the research team looking at the impact coronavirus was having on people with learning disabilities. It was the largest scale research study about the pandemic to...
Building on successes in the USA and the UK (London), Laureus Sport for Good Foundation and its country specific partners have brought the Model City programme (now known as Sport for Good Cities) to Paris...
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) was appointed as the independent evaluation partner of The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in Learning Disability and Autism Trial in partnership with bemix and My Life My Choice...
Resources for health and care professionals, detailing the “Whole Family Approach” to Person Centred Care.
A presentation on Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, Joint Hypermobility Syndrome) and symptomatic hypermobility.
When Model City London (MCL) was first launched in three London boroughs (Hounslow, Haringey and Barking) in late 2018, it was seen as an exciting concept and opportunity for bottom up, place-based Sport for Development...
NHS 111 First When the NHS 111 first campaign launched, we at the Valuing People Alliance (NDTi, LDE and BILD) decided we wanted to know what impact this might have on people with learning disabilities...
Madeline Cooper
Tel: 01225 255 268
Email: Madeline.Cooper@ndti.org.uk
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