Recorded March 2025
Watch: Tackling inequalities webinar: How can we make care more equal for people with learning disabilities and autistic people?
Following our Tackling Inequalities webinar, we have published a q&a document responding to additional questions that we weren’t able to address during the session.
People with learning disabilities and autistic people continue to experience poor health outcomes in comparison to the rest of the population, leading to lower life expectancy and a higher number of avoidable deaths (House of commons committee report, 2024).
SCIE and colleagues discuss SCIE’s Tackling Inequalities project and share best practice from our guidance on this topic. You will gain an understanding of the inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities and autistic people and the practical steps needed to improve experiences of care and support, as well as SCIE’s approach to co-production on this project.
Attendees had the chance to ask our expert panel questions, made up of SCIE practice development consultants, learning disability advocates and members of the SCIE Fliers, our brilliant co-production group, who have lived experience and worked with us throughout this project.
This webinar is for:
- Practitioners from the health and social care sector working with people with a learning disability.
- Commissioners and providers of health and social care services for adults with a learning disability.
- Practitioners and providers working with people with a learning disability in wider settings, including education, housing, the voluntary and community sector, employment and criminal justice services.
- Anyone interested in co-production work
Panellists
- Jon Soros (chair) – SCIE Senior Practice Development Consultant
- Dan Lacey – SCIE Practice Development Consultant
- John Hersov – SCIE Flier group facilitator and learning disability advocate
- Anne Corrigan – SCIE Flier
- Sedley Wilson – SCIE Flier