What's Out There?

People with learning disabilities and their families represent a diverse group and come from all backgrounds, cultures and walks of life. However, people with learning disabilities and families from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities often face major barriers in accessing services and support that meets their needs.

In partnership with The Action Group, The British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) and Glasgow Learning Disability Partnership, the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability (SCLD)  felt there was a need to do some research into this.  These organisations make up the steering group for the project.  The steering group decided to call this work the 'What's Out There?' or 'WOT?' project.

The steering group applied for some money and we got a small grant from the Big Lottery's Investing in Ideas fund.  We used this money to pay two researchers to do the research for us.  We made our decision about which researchers to chose by holding a tendering process and we interviewed lots of different people who were interested in doing the work.

The researchers who were successful in getting the contract were Ghizala Avan and Farkhanda Chaudhry of Ex Anima Research and Consultancy.