Introducing Lucy Gibbons – SCLD Team Support Coordinator

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Who am I? Hello, my name is Lucy Gibbons, and I am thrilled to have joined The Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) as Team Support Coordinator. I taught English with the British Council in Asia and the Middle East for about ten years, where I chose to specialise in absolute beginners, before returning to the UK just …

Human Rights Day 2022: Help Protect our Human Rights Act

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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 …

Include For Good Rapporteurs meet with Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care

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Following up on a promise made when the vision for Include For Good was being developed, Mr Kevin Stewart, Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care, came to meet with the Rapporteurs on Monday 31st October. The Include For Good Rapporteurs and Mr Stewart. Left to right: Dylan Stevens, Sandy Stark, David Ross, Mr Kevin Stewart, John Gallon (via Zoom), …

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

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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 …

SCLD welcomes publication of Review of Supported Employment within Scotland

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On 27 September, the Scottish Government published its Review of Supported Employment within Scotland. You can download SCLD’s easy read version here. Providing access to meaningful employment for disabled people, including people with learning disabilities, is critically important. This review looks at the role of supported employment in making paid employment accessible to everyone. SCLD’s Chief Executive, Charlie McMillan, chaired …

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A Trauma-Informed Perspective on Restraint Reduction

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Dr Brodie Paterson is an experienced practitioner, researcher, and expert witness with degrees in psychology, education and social policy and has published more than a hundred papers, book chapters and research reports. He is currently Clinical Director of CALM Training, a specialist consultancy, support, and training provider to services supporting people whose distress may present as behaviour that challenges. In …

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Navigating a complex legislative landscape – our position

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The legislative landscape in Scotland is becoming increasingly complex, but also ever more relevant to the daily lives of people with learning disabilities. It is important for the Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) to set out our position as a human rights defender organisation. Today we have published a Position Statement to explore the context of the …

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SCLD and Project Ability present our ‘Summer Series’ of art

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Earlier this year SCLD commissioned nine Project Ability artists to create a range of icons and illustrations which represented what human rights meant to them. Some of the artwork was initially displayed as a ‘human rights mural’ to mark Scottish Learning Disability Week 2022 and its human rights theme. We also wanted to use the artwork to update the SCLD website …

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The One Where We Spoke to the Minister About Our Human Rights!

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Aaron Hume, a member of SCLD’s Learning Disability and Human Rights Lived Experience Board writes about the Board’s recent meeting with Christina McKelvie MSP and the importance of being heard when it comes to human rights… “Recently the SCLD Human Rights Lived Experience Board had the pleasure of having Minister for Equalities and Older People, Christina McKelvie MSP, come along …