In 2006, SCLD started to support practitioners to meet together to improve the support that parents who have learning disabilities get.  A group of 18 people meet quarterly with the aim of collecting and sharing good practice in this field.  This group consists of professionals from a wide range of disciplines, advocacy representatives and parents themselves.

This work is part of a UK wide initiative that SCLD have undertaken with a number of partners, including the Norah Fry Institute and CHANGE.  One aim of the work was to set up a national network of interested people, and to make available to them examples of good practice, accessible information, research findings, policy documents and future events.  You can join this network by going to the following link:

www.right-support.org.uk

You can  find out about a lot of accessible information by going onto the CHANGE website:

www.changepeople.co.uk

This work is funded by the Baring Foundation and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation