Addressing Education & Training Gaps in Learning Disabilities Provision
5th July 2017 - The Riverside Cricket Club, Durham - 9:30-12:30
Durham hosts the third in a series of events hosted across the North region to address education training gaps in learning disabilities provision.
Purpose/ Key learning outcomes include:
- Bring together local learning disability service providers with education and training providers
- Listening to each other to address education and training gaps and opportunities
- Produce a joint action plan to minimise training gaps
Read the event flyer for more information.
Refreshed Statutory Guidance on Involving People in Health and Care
NHS England has published refreshed statutory guidance on how to involve people in health and care. The guidance is for Clinical Commissioning Groups and NHS England and was developed working with a range of people and organisations including voluntary and community sector organisations and people with lived experience.
The guidance is made up of two documents, ‘Involving people in their own health and care’ and ‘Patient and public participation in commissioning health and care’. It outlines relevant legal duties, actions for commissioners, good practice examples and links to other resources, which support involvement. The refreshed guidance was developed working with key stakeholders, through a combination of webinars, workshops, meetings and written feedback.
Don Redding, Director of Policy for National Voices, has written a blog supporting the guidance and highlighting the benefits of engaging with people and carers.
Fuse Quarterly Research Meeting
13th July 2017 - Northumbria University
Registration is now open for the Fuse Quarterly Research Meeting on 13 July 2017, to be held at Northumbria University.
The focus will be on “Intensive Advice Services: What impact do they have on health?”.
The event will be co-facilitated by the Fuse research team at Northumbria University and Citizens Advice, Gateshead.
Find out more and register online
Save the Date: VONNE AGM and Conference
VONNE's Annual Conference and AGM will take place on 30 November 2017 at The CastleGate, Newcastle upon Tyne.
The theme for 2017 is Civil Society.
Further details including speakers, programme and how to register will be available shortly.
Public Health England Annual Conference 2017
Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th September at Warwick University
This year's conference is focusing on three key themes across the programme:
• promoting world-class science and evidence
• making the economic case for prevention
• working towards a healthier, fairer society
Each session in the six track programme is linked to one or more of these themes. Speakers will include renowned experts and those with experience in putting the evidence into action. The detailed programmes for many of the sessions are now available.
Richard Curtis, writer, director, producer and co-founder of Red Nose Day, will be 'in conversation' at the conference, discussing how he has encouraged a generation to take action on social issues. Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University will give a plenary lecture on communicating evidence to inform, and the crucial role of trust, and Dame Margaret Whitehead, WH Duncan Professor of Public Health at the University of Liverpool will give a keynote address on health inequalities.
FINE and Health and Wellbeing
Healthy Heart Grants (North East and the North West*)
* Subway Tyne Tees and Granada regions
Up to £10,000. VCSE. Deadline 17th July 2017
Grants are available for projects that actively promote Heart Health and help to prevent, or reduce, the risk of heart disease. Selected projects will take an innovative approach to promoting heart-healthy lifestyles to help communities to live healthier, happier, longer lives.
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Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Family Grants (UK)
Up to £500. Families. Third Thursday of each month.
Grants are awarded to families facing financial hardship while caring for a child with a serious illness. Aiming to provide support to help families cope, grants can cover a wide range of costs from respite breaks and counselling to hospital travel expenses.
Applications must be made on behalf of the family by a healthcare professional, social services, health visitors, or grant coordinators within an organisation. All grant requests are assessed monthly on the third Friday of the month successful applicants are usually notified within two weeks of the assessment.
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