top of page
Home: Welcome
For People with Learning Disabilities



Home: Blog2
Blog, news and all that patter!
Search


Lewisham Speaking Up People's Parliament
By Lloyd Page and Steve Hardy We were excited to be part of the vote for People's Parliament Representatives. Lloyd was the chair person...

stevose31
Sep 24, 20242 min read


Epilepsy - a great outcome for a young man!
By Lucy Shipston and Amy Gleeson, Epilepsy Team, Adult Learning Disability Team, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust I have a gentleman on my...

stevose31
Aug 22, 20242 min read


Shaping future services after crisis
Sarah Offley, Chief Officer, Dudley Voices for Choice Transforming care programme was established by the government in response to the...

stevose31
Jul 15, 20244 min read


‘Learning Together’ at The Ortus Centre
I attended the ‘Learning Together’ conference which was part of Learning Disability Awareness Week. The event was organised by The Estia...

stevose31
Jul 3, 20241 min read


‘Let's Talk About Sexuality’ - a fantastic group for people with learning disabilities
We at Oxleas started a pioneering group two years ago called ‘Let’s talk about sexuality’. It’s been absolutely amazing what we have...

stevose31
Jun 14, 20242 min read


The day I met ADHD
One day during last July I was getting a connecting train at Gravesend Railway Station. I was approaching the bridge from platform 0 to...

stevose31
Jun 6, 20242 min read


'Laughing Boy' - a rollercoaster of happiness, sadness, indifference, humanity and most important buses!
A review by Steve Hardy and Lloyd Page. Thank you to Sarah Offley for taking us to the play. Well where do start when writing a review?...

stevose31
May 30, 20243 min read


Justice for Laughing Boy
From an event held at LSBU. By Lloyd Page The name of this event was ‘Justice for Laughing Boy’, the story of Connor Sparrowhawk. A young...

stevose31
May 17, 20241 min read


Spains first parliamentary who has Down syndrome ❤️
#LoveThis #Spain #Politics #DownSyndrome

stevose31
Jan 13, 20241 min read


‘The milkman of human kindness’ lives in Bexley Food Bank!
I work with Bexley ResearchNet, which is a group of people with learning disabilities who work to improve services in Bexley. They are...

stevose31
Jan 5, 20242 min read


Just a change of approach - Working within the social model - the self advocacy way
I had only been working for Dudley Voices for Choice a short time before Sarah approached me with an idea of supporting young people with...

stevose31
Dec 11, 20236 min read


Positive Voices Conference 2023
A blog by Lloyd Page I was kindly invited by Sarah Offley from Dudley Voices for Choices to host the Positive Voices self-advocacy...

stevose31
Oct 16, 20231 min read


The Mental Capacity Act and reducing restrictive practice
I was asked by those good people at the British Institute of Learning Disabilities to deliver a presentation on the Mental Capacity Act...

stevose31
Oct 16, 20231 min read


EAMHID Congress 2023 - “Peter and Friends” hit Helsinki!
By Peter Cronin, Steve Hardy and Eddie Chaplin We've all been looking forward to coming to Helsinki for ages. When we arrived everyone...

stevose31
Sep 23, 20234 min read


“Finding Ivy” the story of people with learning disabilities and Aktion T4
By Lloyd Page and Steve Hardy We started off really early on a Saturday at London Kings Cross and we boarded the train at 08.03am to...

stevose31
Sep 20, 20232 min read


Celebrating Learning Disability Nursing at The Old Naval College
By Lloyd Page and Steve Hardy #OxLDN We want to share with everyone what a fantastic day we had on Friday 25th August. It was the day of...

stevose31
Aug 31, 20232 min read


Positive Choices and Positive Commitments in Liverpool!
By Lloyd Page and Steve Hardy We met at London Bridge and started our journey. Then we got to London Euston for our train to Liverpool....

stevose31
Apr 21, 20233 min read


Coproduction - does it come naturally?
#LearningDisabilities #SelfAdvocacy #SelfAdvocacyWorks #Coproduction #LearningDisability

stevose31
Jan 6, 20231 min read


Lloyd and Steve unbiased review of the launch of ‘Peter and friends talk about mental health!
By Lloyd Page Steve Hardy, Team Members of 'Peter & Friends' This even was supported by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, London South Bank...

stevose31
Dec 16, 20222 min read


I am human too! Our visit to NHSE
This is a presentation about our response to the Learning Disability Mortality Review (LeDeR) Report in 2018. View the short...

stevose31
Dec 16, 20221 min read
Home: Contact
Home: Subscribe
bottom of page