As part of the Transforming Care work in the wake of Winterbourne View, Peter McGill has developed a service specification on positive behaviour support which … Read more
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New ESRC grant awarded
We are delighted to announce that Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones has been awarded a research grant to make a comparative study looking in to the welfare … Read more
OFFSCA-ID Scholarship
Congratulations to Pak Chiu who has been awarded the OFFSCA-ID scholarship and will be starting his MSc this September. Pak will be interviewing ex-offenders with … Read more
IASSIDD Conference Prague November 15th 2013
“Developing community based support for people with intellectual disability: Working in partnership to achieve change” The Conference is being organised jointly by the IASSIDD Special … Read more
Personalised support services for disabled people: What can we learn?
SCWRU and Ipsos MORI are hosting a joint free event on Wednesday 25th September 2013 King’s College, London 0930-1200hrs. The setting for everyone involved with care … Read more
Guest Lecturer at the University of Brasilia
The Tizard Centre is proud to announce that Rachel Forrester-Jones is currently working alongside Colleagues at the University of Brasilia as a visiting Professor, giving … Read more
Winterbourne View – have lessons been learned?
The launch of a quality code three years after the Winterbourne revelations means some good has come out of the scandal according to David Brindle … Read more
Tizard Student Success
We are delighted to announce that Kayleigh Rodbard and Scott Bartle, both recent students at the Tizard Centre (MA IDD) have been successful in securing the … Read more
Specialist Positive Behaviour Practitioner Post
We have been advised that Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust are advertising for a Specialist Behaviour Practitioner. For more details please look at the website: www.jobs.nhs.uk [1] reference … Read more
SOTSEC-ID training in Japan
Prof Glynis Murphy and Dr Neil Sinclair recently visited Tokyo with the purpose of delivering SOTSEC-ID training. This was funded by the Muraki fund, set … Read more