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Staying strong: taking self advocacy into the future
- Author:
- NATIONAL FORUM OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
- Publisher:
- National Forum of People with Learning Difficulties
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- Shoreham-by-Sea
Self advocacy groups are led by people with learning disabilities. They work to ensure that people with learning disabilities are treated fairly. This easy read guide aims to help self advocacy groups adapt and change their ways of working, and to ensure they have a plan for their future. It is based on a survey of self-advocacy groups from all over England and provides an overview of how groups are run, what they do and advice on how to plan to stay strong as government funding is reduced. The report includes information on five groups including a group of people with complex needs, an Asian women’s group and a parents’ group.
Good practice in breast and cervical screening for women with learning disabilities
- Publisher:
- NHS Cancer Screening Programmes
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Summarising current guidance on access to health care for people with learning disabilities and explaining the issues of consent for breast or cervical screening, the purpose of this guidance is to describe good practice to ensure that women with learning disabilities have the same rights of access as all other women to the NHS Breast Screening Programme and the NHS Cervical Screening Programme. It is aimed at health or social services staff who provide support for women with learning disabilities, staff who work in screening programmes, and staff and family members who provide support for women with learning disabilities. The guidance recommends good practice so that wherever possible women with a learning disability can have access to information to enable them to make their own decisions about screening, know what to expect when they attend the screening so that it is a positive experience, and understand the possible consequences of screening and the need to be aware of changes in their own bodies. It includes criteria for assessing the capacity of individuals to consent to screening and recommendations on what to do if a woman is not able to consent. This publication has now been superseded by Equal access to breast and cervical screening for disabled women.