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Healthwatch call out for ‘How does it feel for me?’ project participants

By |17th May 2024|Communities of Interest, Learning Disability, MailChimp, News|

Healthwatch are looking for men from minority ethnic communities and also people with a learning disability to share experiences of health and care services in Leeds. We’re looking for people who have multiple health conditions [...]

Cervical Cancer and HPV – People Matters padlet

By |7th May 2024|Communities of Interest, Health & Care, Learning Disability, MailChimp, News|

The team at People Matters have been very busy working on a shared resource which aims to increase awareness of cervical cancer and HPV (Human papillomavirus which causes most cervical cancer). There are lots of [...]

Share Your Experiences of Home Care Support with Leeds City Council

By |7th May 2024|Communities of Interest, Have your say, Health & Care, Learning Disability, MailChimp, Older People, PSI|

Do you receive home care support or support people who do? If so Leeds City Council (LCC) would like to speak to people who have home care support arranged through LCC, to share their experiences [...]

Local Care Partnership Survey for Students about ADHD Support

By |3rd May 2024|Have your say, Learning Disability, MailChimp|

Leeds Student Medical Practice and The Light Surgery Local Care Partnership are asking students to complete a short survey to gather feedback which will help them provide better ADHD support, decide on their next steps [...]

‘It’s Everyone’s Journey’ A New Campaign From the Department for Transport

By |9th April 2024|Health & Care, Inclusion, Learning Disability, MailChimp, News, PSI|

The Department for Transport (DfT) is conducting a campaign to make public transport accessible to Disabled people. The campagin aims to show how we can all play a part in making public transport more inclusive. [...]

Report Launched: International Day of Disabled People 2023 Evaluation

By |20th March 2024|Learning Disability, MailChimp, News, PSI|

Read the newly released report which summarises the activity that took place in Leeds to mark International Day of Disabled People 2023. Leeds for All celebrated the International Day of Disabled People for the 5th [...]

Life On Hold: Neurodivergent people and healthcare experiences November 2023

By |13th March 2024|Health & Care, Learning Disability, MailChimp, News|

West Yorkshire Voice and HealthWatch invited feedback from people with experience of neurodivergence to talk about some of the key issues in healthcare. They offered a chance for neurodivergent people and carers to have their [...]

AutistiCon 2024 – Leeds Autism Event

By |27th February 2024|Communities of Interest, Events, Featured, Health & Care, Inclusion, Learning Disability, MailChimp|

AutistiCon, our annual autism information event for Leeds, is back for 2024! The date and venue have both been confirmed for this year. The event will take place on Tuesday, 11 June 2024 from 9.30am [...]

Check out the IDODP Highlights Videos

By |20th February 2024|Featured, Health & Care, Inclusion, Learning Disability, MailChimp, PSI|

IDODP ‘23 influenced and included around 900 people in its extended pan-disability scope this time around. To celebrate this, we've created two videos to highlight; what happened on the day at the marketplace event and [...]

Employment Task Group features in Community Living Article

By |23rd January 2024|Featured, Health & Care, Learning Disability, MailChimp|

Our  Learning Disability Development worker, Shaun Webster MBE and the work of our Autism and Learning Disability Employment Task Group has been featured in an article in the Community Living magazine. The article focusses on [...]

Orange Travel Wallets Scheme for West Yorkshire

By |19th December 2023|Health & Care, Inclusion, Learning Disability, MailChimp, News, Older People, PSI|

The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has recently launched a new initiative called the Orange Travel Wallet scheme, to help people with communication difficulties or disabilities to use public transport.   The bright orange wallet is a [...]

30 Nov 2023 International Day of Disabled People Marketplace Event IDODP

By |23rd November 2023|Learning Disability, PSI|

Transformative, Inclusive, Innovative and Collaborative! Linda Nield, Senior Commissioning Officer at Working Age Adults Commissioning Team: "It was a very bustling event, wasn’t it? Really well attended I was pleased to see!" The International Day [...]

SEND Survey for ethnically diverse young people

By |8th November 2023|Have your say, Health & Care, Inclusion, Learning Disability, MailChimp, PSI|

Do you work with SEND children and young people from minoritised ethnic communities? If so, SEND Youth Voice would like your help in their research project. They are conducting a survey interested in looking at [...]

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