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A collaborative ESRC funded project to examine how adults with learning disability & their allies are self-building lives as day centre use declines @power_geog

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*NEW REPORT*: Our report being launched today is based on a two-year ESRC-funded collaborative research project to find out how people with learning disabilities and their allies are creatively responding to personalisation in #socialcare. 1/14

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Sad to hear from JP Donnelly @Googlemail8 @GDA__online that the anxieties about Covid19 are still there. Not everyone is willing to be out and about meeting people #ReconnectingOurLives

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Lovely to hear that @PeopleFirstDor membership has grown due to reaching out to people online and supporting people during Covid19 restrictions #ReconnectingOurLives

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Looking forward to the discussions today at out 'Re-Connecting Our Lives' webinar. For those attending or wish to follow on Twitter, it's #ReconnectingOurLives @power_geog @andycoverdale @alexkaley85 @Googlemail8 @MatthewKing35 @PeopleFirstDor

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*New paper published today* Personalisation policy in the lives of people with learning disabilities: a call to focus on how people build their lives relationally ⁦@power_geog⁩ ⁦@m_nind⁩ ⁦@andycoverdale⁩ ⁦⁦@DrHMac⁩ ⁦et al https://t.co/pNUHqlS8lr

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Our research report outlines the building blocks worth investing in to address the untapped potential of #personalisation @Helen_Whately https://t.co/4knjgo826t

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Our research report outlines the building blocks worth investing in to address the untapped potential of #personalisation @Helen_Whately https://t.co/4knjgo826t

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Let’s enable people to build meaningful lives through independent brokerage, advocacy, community embedded peer support and self-advocacy opportunities. https://t.co/4knjgnQqHT

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@DavidJ_Brindle A NHS-led social care is not the answer. Our new report outlines how social care needs to be embedded in people’s communities through independent brokerage, advocacy, peer support and self-advocacy opportunities. https://t.co/R7OTUPfL7n

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For those not able to take in our new report this morning, you could check out our short film on the ways some people with learning disabilities are being supported to self-build their lives: https://t.co/zV5zk0TK0R #SelfBuildingOurLives @m_nind

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For any comments and feedback, please use the hashtag #SelfBuildingOurLives 🙏💕

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*NEW REPORT*: Our report being launched today is based on a two-year ESRC-funded collaborative research project to find out how people with learning disabilities and their allies are creatively responding to personalisation in #socialcare. 1/14

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And of course thanks go to our great interdisciplinary team @power_geog, @m_nind, Ed Hall, @DrHMac @andycoverdale, @alexkaley85 & Abigail Croydon

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To read more about the project behind the report check out – https://t.co/4sy4q7o0f8. Thanks go to our national level partners @TLAP and @SCIE, our funder @ESRC, our advisory group partners, and contributors at our national feedback event in London November 2019. 14/14

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To read more and to take part in the conversation, please see our NEW REPORT here: https://t.co/IQauhdfUAz. We look forward to hearing from you. 13/14