Important news full report on Care in homes for Elderly people

Inquiry into older people and human rights in home care

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Have you heard of ODI - "Office for Disability Issues"

The Office for Disability Issues (ODI) leads the government’s vision of achieving equality for disabled people. We believe disabled people should have the same choices and opportunities as non disabled people. We are a cross-government organisation that works with government departments, disabled people and a wide range of external groups.

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Mencap - Stand by me

Mancap is calling on all police services to promise to stand by people with a learning disability to end hate crime. We are asking them to sign up to our policing promise

Click here for more details on how to ask your local police force to sign up to this campaign

Free Training Courses January - March 2012

Free joint training opportunity for people who use support to live
their lives, family carers and people who want to work as personal
support assistants.

More information

Find out about working as a support assistant

Booking form

This 7 week 2 hour course looks at
• Benefits and concerns of becoming an employer
• Benefits and concerns about working for an individual employer
• How this is working in Worcestershire
• What makes a good employer?
• What makes a good personal support assistant?
• Community connecting
• Managing a professional relationship
• What happens when things go wrong?
• Employment Law

The Annual Report of Worcestershire Association of Service Users 2011

Annual Report (PDF)

Give me a voice

www.time4people.org.uk

Rainbow Autism

For people with High Functioning Autism to live the life they
choose by removing barriers, overcoming social exclusion,
enabling independent living and increase mental well-being.

Rainbow Autism Brochure

Rainbow Autism Drop in

Free 4 Day Training Courses Oct 2011—Feb 2012

time4people provide training, consultancy, presentations and information for and with people who have disabilities and for people who support them.

Invite to training with booking form (PDF)

Invite to training with booking form

Living well with Dementia: A strategy for Worcestershire

Dementia Strategy - Summary Document June 2011 (PDF)

Donate your empty inkjets and old mobile phones to raise money for WASU.

Inkjet Cartridge = £1 donated, Laser Cartridge = £5, Mobile phone = up to £30 donated

For a full list of wanted inkjets visit http://www.recycle4charity.co.uk/

Please contact z.collins@worc.ac.uk or sbarnes.uloworcester@gmail.com to have a recycle bag sent to you.

Have Your Say.......

You may be a patient, carer or a member of the public who wants to know more about your Ambulance Service. If you have an interest in improving your Ambulance Service, and want your voice heard, then you should become a member.

Thousands of people have already taken the opportunity to sign up as a member in order to shape the future development of the Ambulance Service across the West Midlands region.  The membership campaign is in the process of signing up over 7,500 members of the public who may have a personal or professional interest in the Ambulance Service.

Membership is available to anyone over the age of 16 living in the West Midlands Region and it is free.

If you would like to become a member then please contact us on 01384 215 555 and ask for the Foundation Trust office. Alternatively, email the membership office on foundationtrust@wmas.nhs.uk. 

For more information and access to our online membership form, view our website:
www.wmas.nhs.uk/get_involved/become_a_member.aspx.

WASU Annual Report 2010

Annual Report 2010 (PDF)

WCIL

WASU is now part of the WCIL steering group