Self Advocacy News
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South East Regional Forum of people with learning difficulties | 03-03-2010 |
| Voice 4 Kent co-ordinates the forum. This is for people with learning difficulties from all over the South East. The Regional Forum meets to talk about issues that effect people such as health, employment, housing, transport, hate crime, self directed support and any thing else which people want to talk about. This information goes to the National Forum of people with learning difficulties and to the Regional Programme Board through our elected representatives. The information then goes to the government and helps to form policies that effect people with learning difficulties. We hold conferences and workshops and we have a planning group which meets usually every 2 months. For more information please contact our office on 01622 672295 |
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Kent Parenting Action Group | 27-10-2009 |
| Gill Cross and Zoe Davies are co-ordinators for the Parenting Action Group. We have a steering group every tuesday of parents with learning difficulties. We have 6 parent trainers. We train profesionals to support parents and their children better. We run 3 parent support groups every month. We also run a support line between 11am and 2pm on Tuesdays. For more information, advice and support please contact Gill or Zoe at the Voice4Kent office on Tuesdays. For addresses of the support groups please see below Dover Kidease,Poulton Close, St Radiguards, Dover, CT17 0HL Canterbury and Herne Bay The Poppy Children\\\'s Centre, Parklife, Memorial Park, Kings Road, Herne Bay,CT6 5QR Tonbridge The Childrens Centre, Longmead Community Primary School, Waverney Road, Tonbridge, TN10 3JU For dates of meetings please contact Zoe or Gill at the Voice 4 Kent Office on 01622 672295 or Gill on 07747587476 or Zoe on 07971708485 |
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Interview Panel for the Kent Partnership Board | 08-07-2009 |
| Voice4Kent has been involved with KCC job interviews. People with learning difficulties who are members of their district partnership groups and have experience of interviewing or taken part in some training have been involved in interviewing Locality Managers, Care Managers, Occupational Therapists and Kent County Council\'s Valuing People lead. Chris and Sue Peach from the Primary Care Trust have been supporting the joint chairs in the interview process and to develop the group. Elvis from Skillnet Group and Ange Brown from East Kent Mencap have also supported the work of the group. | ||
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Steven is Chair of the Kent Partnership Board | 03-09-2008 |
| Steven is the chair of Kent Partnership board. Steven represents the views of people with learning difficulties in Kent. | ||
