Monthly Archives: June 2014

Living in Fear update

Project advisors, Colin Guest (MCCH) and Lisa Richardson (Tizard Centre)  attended a Kent and Medway Learning Disability Community of Practice on Wednesday 18th June.  As part of the event on Addressing Health Inequalities in Learning Disability week the team presented  key … Continue reading

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The Researching Altogether Group

This group was set up by Dr Michelle McCarthy and Amanda Bates (PhD student) from Tizard at the end of 2013.  The group is made up of service users who advise Tizard on different aspects of research, for example, commenting … Continue reading

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Justice for people with learning disabilities

Following a mad few days Dr Jill Bradshaw and Prof Chris Hutton have managed to have their letter concerning the preventable death of Connor Sparrowhawk (aged 18)printed in The Guardian, this coincides with a debate in the House of Lords today into … Continue reading

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Lorna Wing 1928 – 2014

Colleagues will be saddened to hear about the death of Lorna Wing on Friday 6th June.  Lorna began her work in autism in the 1960s. As a parent of a child who had autism she helped to found the National … Continue reading

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Living in Fear – Parliamentary Group

On Monday 12th May 2014 along with project advisors Rob Marno, Allan Finn and Kathy Johnson,  Lisa Richardson from the Tizard centre and  Colin Guest project manager from MCCH attended a Joint meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism … Continue reading

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