Welcome to Learning Disability Today
Manchester 2009

Learning Disability Today celebrates what is being achieved to enable people with learning disabilities to live full and active lives through the sharing of best practice, debate on policy, participation in engaging zones, and networking with hundreds of people with learning disabilities and professionals working in the sector.

What is on offer?

Quick Guide: Seminar Programme

Exhibition

Over 50 key projects, organisations and suppliers showcasing their products and services under one roof.

Confirmed exhibitors include:

Find out more about how your organisation can exhibit.

Seminar programme

• Keynote speech
• Good and bad practice in personalisation and individualised budgets: what does it mean for commissioners?
• Marketing to individuals not local authorities: how care providers can engage with individuals
• Being more independent in your housing needs
• Dementia
• Good practice case studies in supporting people
• Quality measuring
• Children’s services and transition
• Transfer to individual budgets
• New employment strategy
• Acquired brain injury
• Safeguarding vulnerable adults in the NHS
• Ethnicity

Zones

Arts Zone Technology Zone Media Zone

Film Zone Training Zone Music Gym

This programme is subject to change and will be updated regularly.

Call out to local arts organisations specialising in working with people with a learning disability

We would like to know more about your project or organisation.

Learning Disability Today Manchester will feature an Arts Zone and we want to showcase best practice in this field.

If you are based in the North West and would like to let us know about what you are doing please email philp@pavpub.com with a brief outline of how you are enabling people with a learning disability to engage with the arts - performing arts, crafts, visual arts, music, film, photography.

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