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Care to implement the approach. ail la in ac o an an
We are also working with Bradford Talking
Media, who presented at our Beter Social e a etc ocu en a
Work Conference. In this phase, there
will be workshops linked to the frst three
principles of the Mental Capacity Act ace a in looks back on an autumn of
where self-advocates and social workers abundant treats, with some wonderful actng
will co-design the knowledge and skills from Sarah Gordy in the BBC’s Strike and an
social workers need to support people interestng cinema documentary featuring
with learning disabilites. We will create adults with Down’s syndrome in the BFI London Film Festval.
learning materials and pilot a contnuing
professional development (CPD) module Strike – ‘The Silkworm’, enough to seek independent living, but do
for social workers. We are planning BBC1, Sunday 10 September 2017 not possess the fnances or emotonal
another Beter Social Work Conference The Grown-ups, stability to pursue these on their own.
next summer to share our learning and Director Maite Aberadi, 2016 Refectng issues for people with learning
hear back from self-advocates and disabilites internatonally, most of the tme
practtoners in our region about what e alen e a a o ea u e in spent training and working in the centre’s
diference social work is making. T e secon ins al en o e s catering department is not rewarded
ike s e ies . owlin fnancially or recognised. The flm’s four
KEY MESSAGES The Cuckoo’s Calling. a a is la in a central subjects are strong and charismatc.
l Health and social care is too ofen ail o ac o s wi lea nin isa ilites Anita wants to escape the boredom of the
restrictve and risk averse when avin eviousl een seen in e iso es training centre and marry Andres, a fellow
making decisions about people o Call the Midwife an Doctors as well classmate. Rita is frustrated by her
with learning disabilites as s a in in Upstairs, Downstairs. emotons and how to deal with them,
e ave a ea -w enc in e o ance and Ricardo is trying to work and save
l Social work should be based on as lan o uinn au e o wen money for his future: “I want to be
the social model of disability and a w o as een u all u e e . someone, like a homeowner. I want to make
commitment to uphold people’s
human rights e leaves e in is wi e eono a w o is enough to keep my home. I want to build
s u lin o ake ca e o ei au e a family with someone who makes me feel
l Knowledge and shared w o was ain a a e a i . special. That’s what I’m saving for.”
understandings of beter social ankl e in ensi o a a s
work practce is most efectvely e o ance a e o so e i cul The Grown-ups ultmately highlights
co-produced by self-advocates viewin a t es u in a cas o alen e the need for expanded job and life
and social workers working ac o s inclu in onica olan as e opportunites for people with learning
together in respectul and o e s e was es e isin o wa c . disabilites, and their repeated mantra
reciprocal partnerships. look o wa o e u u e o ec s an ‘Who are we? conscious adults’, needs
contnue evelo en as a sc een ac o to be heard and recognised by a
ole o el an c a ion o eo le wider audience.
1. Department of Health, Government wi lea nin isa ilites.
response to ‘No voice unheard, no right MORE SANCTUARY
ignored ’ – a consultaton for people with The love between two people with
learning disabilites, autsm and mental October has seen the 61st BFI London Film learning disabilites and their atempts
health conditons’ (Cm 9142, 10/11/15) Festval take place in cinemas around the to forge a relatonship together in
2. An NHS Trust v P. & Anon 2013. capital. It is an annual opportunity for The Grown-ups shares a theme with
3. Munby, Lord Justce. 2011. more than 300 flms to be shown from Sanctuary, which I wrote about in the last
‘Safeguarding and Dignity: When is approximately 500 countries. This year issue. I promised to update you on further
Safeguarding Abuse’: Keynote address by saw the inclusion of a flm from Chile developments, and I am delighted to
Lord Justce Munby to the Rotherham, The Grown-ups, directed by Maite Aberadi. report that the flm had its UK premiere
Doncaster and South Humber Mental The documentary follows adults with at the Oska Bright Film Festval in
Health NHS Foundaton Trust’s AMPH Downs Syndrome at a training centre Brighton on Wednesday 15th November.
and Social Care Conference, Doncaster. where they work in the catering This was the eighth annual festval of flms
department. The flm ofers an made by, or featuring, adults with
observatonal and empathetc study of the learning disabilites and runs over three
James, E. Morgan, H and Mitchell, R. students who are middle-aged and mature days showing more than a hundred flms
(2017) ‘Named social workers – beter from around the world, including short
social work for learning disabled people?’ Natonal Named Social Worker Pilot flms and animaton.
Disability & Society 32 (10) pp 1650-1655 website hosted by SCIE
DOI: htp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599 htps://www.scie.org.uk/social-work/ There will be a report in a later issue of
.2017.1340019 (open access) named-social-worker Community Living. The flm has also been
Easy Read version produced by shown in Hawaii, and will be screened at
Rebecca Fish htp://wp.lancs.ac.uk/ Hannah Morgan is Senior Lecturer & the Internatonal Film Festval in Poland.
cedr/2017/07/10/named-social- Elaine James is Honorary Researcher Another UK flm festval screening took
workers-beter-social-work-for- Centre for Disability Research (CeDR), place at Manchester Home on the 29th
learning-disabled-people/ Lancaster University December, with more to follow in 2018.

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