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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 ID to find out their views and thoughts about the care they have received since … Continue reading

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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 Interest Research Group on Comparative Policy and Practice and Charles University Prague as part of … Continue reading

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

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

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

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

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

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IASSIDD Asia-Pacific Conference Japan 2013

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

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Seattle Club Conference December 2013 Cardiff

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

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‘Stand by Me’ campaign against hate crime.

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

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