My Life My Choice

Paul Burstow is the new chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and a former Liberal Democrat MP. He was in the news last week for saying that he…

We read that Frank Field MP – who is the chairman of the Commons Work and Pensions Committee – has suggested that disabled people could be payed less than the…

Recently we went to a workshop put on by the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) and NHS England. It was about improving the health of people with learning disabilities.…

As a sector, we should be leading the way in providing jobs for people with learning disabilities. The Guardian recently published a story about jobs for people with learning disabilities.…

My Life My Choice runs user-led campaigns about issues that our members care about. After watching the Channel 4 Documentary Under Lock and Key, the campaigning group has been looking…

We know that people with a learning disability have worse health than other people, and die sooner than they should. They are 58 times more likely to die before the…

  In July 2015, the My Life My Choice trustees decided to start a 100 Club lottery to raise money for the charity. A small sub-committee was formed to make…

On 20 June we went to the Better Health Better Lives conference, which was organised by NHS England and the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) to talk about how…