Category Archives: Tizard

Personalised support services for disabled people: What can we learn?

Posted on September 16, 2013 by

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 and support services is changing. While the benefits of offering disabled people choice and control … Continue reading →

Posted in Tizard, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Guest Lecturer at the University of Brasilia

Posted on September 12, 2013 by

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 her first talk on palliative care, dementia, spirituality, death and mourning.    Rachel will be spending … Continue reading →

Posted in Tizard, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Winterbourne View – have lessons been learned?

Posted on September 12, 2013 by

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 in his article in The Guardian, 11th September 2013. Three years ago next month, whistleblower … Continue reading →

Posted in Tizard, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Tizard Student Success

Posted on September 11, 2013 by

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 two recently advertised jobs with Herts Community NHS offering them the opportunity to work in a Challenging … Continue reading →

Posted in Tizard, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Specialist Positive Behaviour Practitioner Post

Posted on September 10, 2013 by

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  812-13-1332PE, this job can only be applied for via the NHS website shown.

Posted in Tizard, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

SOTSEC-ID training in Japan

Posted on September 4, 2013 by

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 up for the benefit of people with learning diasbilities in the Criminal Justice System by … Continue reading →

Posted in events, Tizard | Leave a comment

IASSIDD Asia-Pacific Conference Japan 2013

Posted on September 3, 2013 by

The 3rd IASSIDD Asia-Pacific conference was held in August at Waseda University international conference centre, Tokyo, Japan.  Professor Glynis Murphy, presented a paper and attended council meetings as immediate past President.  The Conference attracted 436 delegates; 214 from japan, 11 … Continue reading →

Posted in Tizard, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Seattle Club Conference December 2013 Cardiff

Posted on August 19, 2013 by

The 13th Seattle Club Conference is being hosted by the Unit for Development in Intellectual Disability (UDID) and is being held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Cardiff, 9th & 10th December 2013.  This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr … Continue reading →

Posted in Tizard, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

‘Stand by Me’ campaign against hate crime.

Posted on August 19, 2013 by

Too often people with a learning disability become the victims of crime because of their disability. Mencap are working with other organisations to help people understand more about hate crime and how to stop it. They constantly receive reports from around … Continue reading →

Posted in Tizard, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

PAsSA Trial funded by NIHR

Posted on August 14, 2013 by

The PAsSA trial is a research project looking at the effectiveness of group CBT for people with Asperger syndrome and anxiety.  The project is funded by NIHR and headed by Dr Peter Langdon at UEA.  Dr Langdon is coordinating the … Continue reading →

Posted in Tizard, Uncategorized | Leave a comment