Making life more accessible

At Inspired we believe in independent living for people with learning disabilities and the aim of equality by the year 2025, or much sooner if possible! We want to make services and support systems better.

To that end we actively support a number of different campaigns.

See below for more details, or click the links to jump to a campaign:

Who Cares For Us? - Equality for carers with learning disabilities.

A Life Like Any Other - Equality for people with learning difficulties.

The Learning Disability Coalition - A petition for equal funding of services for people with learning disabilities.

Stay Up Late - Making sure people with learning difficulties can stay out late instead of having to go home early because support staff ‘go off duty’.

Changing Our Lives Domestic Abuse Campaign - Making the law treat domestic abuse in residential care equally.

People with learning disabilities as carers.

Carers with a learning disability are a forgotten, but growing, group of people.

They ask for equality  with other carers.

Community Care Magazine campaigns each year on an area social care that has been forgotten.

This year, given the stalling of the Valuing People policy we asked them again to address equality for people with learning difficulties.

A Life Like Any Other was the result.

It has become increasingly apparent that services for people are not only under-funded they are being seriously cut all over the country.

Something needed to be done and this coalition is the result.

Please use the link below to sign the online petition which we will take to Number 10 Downing Street.  

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION

This will open a new window for you

Because of problems with scheduling, many people with learning disabilities must be in by 10.00 pm for their staff to end their shift. This means that they are missing out on fun late-night activities.

The “Stay Up Late” campaign, launched and supported by thrash-punk band Heavy Load, aims to change this. In the band’s own words:

“Our ‘Stay Up Late’ campaign is to make managers and staff know that we want them to plan ahead and talk to us about what we want to do when they’re writing the rota.”

“We want to stay up late - we want to have some fun!”

Changing Our Lives has set up a new campaign about domestic abuse in residential care.

Right now the laws on domestic abuse mainly apply to married people and families, not to people in residential care homes.

So if a husband hits or abuses his wife, it is called “domestic abuse”.

But in residential care, when one resident hits or abuses another, it isn’t called “domestic abuse” so it isn’t treated in the same way.

The actual meaning of the term “domestic abuse” is “abuse in the home”. Changing Our Lives is trying to make this term apply to everyone, no matter what kind of home they live in.

To learn more about the campaign

please click here

Or click here to download the

campaign flyer

To learn more about the Stay Up Late

campaign, please click here

To learn more about Heavy Load and

their documentary film, please click here