LDIAG News LDIAG News LDIAG News New group will meet soon Summer 2012 The Learning Disability Implementation Advisory Group or LDIAG has not met for nearly 2 years. The group decided they needed a new group with new people and new things to work on. Deputy Minister Gwenda Thomas said she would set up a new group to give her advice about learning disabilities. It has taken a long time to set up the new group. The new group is called the Learning Disability Advisory Group or LDAG. Welsh Government asked 12 people to be part of the new group. There are 2 new co-Chairs called Roger Banks and Sophie Hinksman. The new group met for the first time on 3 September 2012 in Cardiff. They talked about the rules of the new group and the work it will do. Samantha Williams is the Information Officer for the group and went to the meeting. www.ldiag.org.uk Gwenda Thomas Roger Banks Sophie Hinksman
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LDIAG NewsLDIAG NewsLDIAG News
New group will meet soon
Summer 2012
The Learning Disability Implementation Advisory
Group or LDIAG has not met for nearly 2 years.
The group decided they needed a new group with
new people and new things to work on.
Deputy Minister Gwenda Thomas said she would
set up a new group to give her advice about
learning disabilities.
It has taken a long time to set up the new group.
The new group is called the Learning Disability
Advisory Group or LDAG.
Welsh Government asked 12 people to be part of
the new group.
There are 2 new co-Chairs called Roger Banks
and Sophie Hinksman.
The new group met for the first time on 3
September 2012 in Cardiff.
They talked about the rules of the new group and
the work it will do.
Samantha Williams is the Information Officer for
the group and went to the meeting.
www.ldiag.org.uk
Gwenda
Thomas
Roger
Banks
Sophie
Hinksman
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What has the CB CoP been doing?
The Challenging Behaviour Community of
Practice or CB CoP had a meeting on 20 June.
Special Support
Clare Trudgeon and Sara Bassett from Aneurin
Bevan Health Board talked about how they give
special support to people with challenging
behaviour.
They both work in a special team to support
people that other services cannot help.
The team helps people with life skills like eating
and talking, or getting out in the community.
There are lots of different people on the team
who all work together to help the person they
support.
The team talks to families about what the person
needs.
They also talk to people working in education and
day services so that they can find different ways
to support people.
Clare and Sara showed some videos of the
people they support and how it has helped them.
Touch Trust
Next, Dilys Price talked about the Touch Trust.
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Touch Trust runs workshops for people with
learning disabilities.
The workshops help people to communicate and
express themselves through touch. This means
showing how they feel and what they are
thinking.
Touch Trust can also teach staff how to
communicate through touch.
There is also a Touch Trust College of the Arts for