Positive Voices Self Advocacy Conference 2024

Positive Voices Self Advocacy Conference 2024 We had a fantastic time at the Positive Voices Self Advocacy Conference 2024 in Birmingham! It was a great way to finish off our time as the current Lewisham People’s Parliament reps’ team and meet some amazing new people. The Journey We had a long but fun journey from […]

Barriers to Employment Report

New Report on Barriers to Employment We have produced a new report that looks at the barriers and solutions to people with learning disabilities and autistic people working in health and social care. How we approached the project on Barriers to Employment It was important to us that this work was led by experts by […]

Read our People’s Parliament report on self advocacy

Read the latest Lewisham People’s Parliament report on Self Advocacy – past, present and future Read our new report on self advocacy! In June 2024, we held a People’s Parliament about self advocacy. We talked about the past present and future of self advocacy. You can read the report here  Or click on the picture […]

Lewisham People’s Parliament on Housing

Read our new Lewisham People’s Parliament report on housing In March we held a Lewisham People’s Parliament on housing. This is a subject we hear a lot about, particularly in our 121 advocacy services where people come to us with many housing issues. People with learning disabilities say they feel frustrated at the lack of […]

Read our new Lewisham People’s Parliament report May 2024

Read our new Lewisham People’s Parliament report on mental health In December 2023 we held a Lewisham People’s Parliament on the subject of mental health. You can read the report by clicking the picture below: This is the third time we have held a People’s Parliament on mental health. We find that people with learning […]

Read our latest People’s Parliament report! (January 2024)

Read our latest People’s Parliament report!   In October 2023 we met to talk about race inequality. You can now read our latest People’s Parliament report. Lewisham People’s Parliament report on Race Equality October 2023   This was the first time we had a discussion about race inequality with a wider group of people with […]

New Easy Read guide to scams January 2024

New Easy Read guide to scams Lewisham Speaking Up has worked with Lewisham Safeguarding Adults Board to make a new easy read guide to scams. You can read the guide by clicking the picture above. The booklet is an easy read guide to common scams. It tells you what scams to look out for what […]

Photosymbols shoot August 2023

Photosymbols shoot August 2023 We had a great time doing a photo shoot last month with the lovely people from Photosymbols Panda, Pete, Steve and Joe from Photosymbols   The pictures we helped make will eventually become easy read images that you can download from the Photosymbols website. This helps to make easy read documents […]

We Deserve Better report 28th July 2023

We Deserve Better report This week saw the launch of an important new report ‘We Deserve Better: Ethnic minorities with a learning disability and access to healthcare’. The report was commissioned by the NHS Race and Health Observatory. The work has been undertaken by the University of Central Lancashire, in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University, […]

New funding from the Lottery!

  Thanks to new funding from the Lottery, our women’s and men’s groups will be re-starting! A grant 0f £8354.00 from the National Lottery Community Fund Awards for All programme means that we will be starting up our women’s and men’s groups again. The groups give people with learning disabilities the chance to meet up […]