Discos and nightclub events for people with learning disabilities

Note to Organisers of Events:

To help avoid clashes with other events for people with learning disabilities, please check this calendar before scheduling your event. This will help bring about a more even spread of events throughout the year, providing more choice and greater opportunities to people with learning disabilities. It will also enable individuals to budget for events.  When you have finalised details of the event, please email the information to: naomi.blackwell@croydon.gov.uk Thanks.

Note to supporters and care providers:

Please support Leisure Link's Shift the Shift campaign!

When you are arranging staff shifts and transport, please do everything you can to support people to stay as late as they would like to.

Try to think of creative ways to do this and share your ideas with Leisure Link, as other care providers have. Please email your suggestions to: naomi.blackwell@croydon.gov.uk, we can print these in future editions of the newsletter, if you ask us to.

Here's a top tip from a Croydon service user and Leisure Link reader to get you started....

"My point is, if you have a group out for the whole day and the member of staff finishes in the afternoon, then the other member of staff coming on to the shift can meet them at the event. So, the residents get a whole day out instead of having to go back home so the staff can finish their shift!" Anna

Top tip from a care provider....

"Care staff could look at ways they could support individuals when they go to discos to stay till the end. After all the discos are not too often. Maybe an idea would be to plan the rota in advance so staff come in later and work later. Or maybe time owing could be allowed if staff do work longer." Gill

It would be great to see more people stay right until the end of discos and club nights.

2010

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Thursday, 2 September, 2010

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