Tizard News and Events

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 over their support are wide ranging, developing the provider market to meet the demand for personalised support brings more challenges. Helping disabled people into employment at a time of economic recession and unprecedented financial difficulties for central and local governments makes close collaboration between local authorities, Jobcentre Plus, user-led organisations and providers even more important. Yet attempts to join up funding streams have faced significant administrative and cultural barriers.

For more details and to register: http://www.ipsos-mori.com/newsevents/events/105/Support-services-for-disabled-people-What-can-we-learn.aspx?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SRISupportservicesfordisabledpeopleWhatcanwelearn&utm_source=ChloetestCopy

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 Terry Bryan set in train a sequence of events that was to send a devastating shockwave through the adult care sector and culminated last week in the sale of what remained of the company he was working for.

That company was Castlebeck and the shockwave has become known as Winterbourne View, the name of its hospital facility for people with learning disabilities and autism near Bristol, where Bryan was a charge nurse and where he had witnessed what he described in an email to management as the “confrontational and aggressive” approach of named staff towards vulnerable patients.

To read the full article:  http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/11/winterbourne-view-learning-disability-care-providers?CMP=twt_fd

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 Behaviour Psychology Service as Positive Behaviour Practitioners.  Many congratulations to them both.

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.

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 Pauline Heslop from the Norah Fry Research Centre, Bristol University.  Dr Heslop led the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths in People with Learning Disabilities which was commissioned by the Department of Health. The findings from this study were launched in Spring 2013.

Please see the web site for full details, general conference information and for deadline dates for submissions:  http://www.seattleclub.org.uk/conference_2013.html

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 5pm on Monday 14th October 2013.
The closing date for registration will be 5pm on Friday, 15 November 2013.