Learning Disability Lived Experience Board – An update

Web AdminBlog, SCLD Publication

As we have seen recently during this month’s Co-Production Week Scotland, coproduction is increasingly used when designing and delivering care services. So, could it also be used when it comes to making decisions on government policies and law? When decisions have life changing impacts for people, it’s essential that decision-making processes involve the people they impact, especially when these decisions …

Photo of Izzy Petherick

How to Access the Revenge Porn Helpline: A blog

Web AdminBlog, News item, SCLD Publication

To mark the beginning of the United Nations 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, SCLD is raising awareness of the experiences of women and girls with learning disabilities, as well as answering the Campaign’s call, by showing how we are investing to prevent violence and abuse against women and girls with learning disabilities. Recently, we have worked with …

Photo of Leeanne and of Sandy. Text reads Sandy Stark and Leeanne Clark The State of Our Rights blog

The State of Our Rights: Leeanne and Sandy have their say

Web AdminBlog, News item, SCLD Publication

SCLD has invited a range of stakeholders and partners to share their thoughts on our recent state-of-the-nation report on the human rights of people with learning disabilities, The State of Our Rights. To bring our series to a close, we are hearing from two members of SCLD’s Human Rights Lived Experience Board, Leeanne Clark and Sandy Stark. Over the last few …

Human Rights Day 2022: Help Protect our Human Rights Act

PublishingBureauBlog, News item

For Human Rights Day (10 December 2022) the British Institute of Human Rights have produced an easy read blog explaining how people with learning disabilities, their families and supporters can help to protect our Human Rights Act.   What has happened so far? In 2020, the UK Government asked a team of experts to tell them if the Human Rights …

The one where the Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities went to the United Nations…

PublishingBureauBlog

Human Rights Defenders Aaron Hume and Fiona Dawson interviewed Oonagh Brown about her experience representing the Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) at the Universal Periodic Review of the United Kingdom at the United Nations… Aaron: For those who don’t know yet, who are you and what is your role at SCLD? My name is Oonagh Brown. I …