Welcome to Walsall Together The website of Walsall's Learning Disability Partnership Board. Here you can find out about the Board and the work it is doing. There is also lots more information about learning disabilities in Walsall.  Using this site Partnership Board Advisory groups Valuing People Personalisation Day services Health Other projects Useful links Events calendar Contact us Latest news and information... Wednesday 3rd February 2010 Keyring are looking for volunteers in the Bloxwich, Pelsall and Rushall areas. If you think you could spare 12 hours a week to help people with learning disabilities  live in supported accomodation, please get in touch. Click here if you live in Rushall and Pelsall     Click here if you live in Bloxwich Tuesday 2nd February 2010 This year National Learning Disability Week will run from 20th to the 26th June. The theme is 'Getting It Right', looking at people's experiences of the National Health Services. Mencap would like to hear from people with a learning disability and their carers about their experiences. Maybe you had a very good experience and recieved the right service for you. Or perhaps you had a bad experience and your health got worse. Anyone who would like to tell Mencap their stories can contact Brenda at brenda.shalvey@mencap.org.uk (020 7696 5568) or Donna Clifford at donna.clifford@mencap.org.uk (01902 746487). Monday 25th January 2010 There are lots of new events listed on the Calendar of events page. Click here to see them. The Health section is growing fast. We want to know what carers' health issues we should be looking at too. if you have any ideas, please use the contact us page to let us know. We will also be building a page which introduces you to the different services available in Walsall. If you have details of a service that you would like to include, please forward them to daviessam@walsall.gov.uk Monday 18th January 2010 We have had over 1,000 visits in the two weeks since the re-launch of the website. We have also had LOTS of feedback from people with a learning disability, carers and other professionals. It has been mostly very good, but some people have suggested how we could make the site better. We will be speaking to these people and we will try to include as many of your ideas as possible. Friday 8th January 2010 There is now a section of the website for GPs about Directly Enhanced Services (DES). The DES is designed to encourage practices to identify those patients with moderate to severe LD as defined by the same criteria used by the local authority Practices will be expected to provide an annual health check to patients on the local authority LD register. Click here to find out more. Tuesday 5th January 2010 Walsall Together, the website of Walsall's Learning Disability Partnership Board, has been re-launched!! The new look to the site is the result of all the feedback we got from the old version. We hope you like it, please use the 'Contact us' link on the left of the page to tell us what you think. If you need help to use this site, click on the 'Using this site' link on the left of the page.

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