East Midlands Rep
Clare Dorothy Crawford
Who I am
I like to speak out for people
with learning disabilities I have
done this for eleven years.
I am also into sports especially
swimming. I represented people
with Downs Syndrome
internationally in Taiwan.
I really care about using my
voice to make a difference with
people with a disability.
I really like singing as well and
I’m quite good at it!
GOOD THINGS IN EAST MIDLANDS

Adam Chilcott was in the
newspaper talking about
being a local rep.

Northampton pb had a
away day on new rights
charter.

The right to control pilot
scheme in Leicester
BAD THINGS IN EAST MIDLANDS
People are worried
about:

Benefits and Health
Cuts
to services
Being
told to leave their
homes because of the
tram.
Self advocacy In OUR area
 Hardly
any Self
advocacy groups in
East Midlands
 Lots
of East Midlands
advocacy has closed in
18 months
 Central
England People
first is the only
independent group left
What we like to do next?
 We
would like to write
to our mps to ask them
what they are doing for
people with a disability.
 Would
you like to join
in come to us if you
are interested come
give us your email.
Feedback from the Forum
 We
mainly talked about
changing the forum to
make it work better
and save money.
 We
talked about having
less of the big National
Forum meetings. We
talked about having 2
instead of 4.
Feedback from the Forum
 We
talked about having
task groups instead.
They would be on
special subjects.
 They
would do work on
the topics and would
be made up of experts.
Feedback from the Forum
 What
do you think about
this?
 Do you have other ideas
about how we could
change things?
 We can also send Lyn a
list of our special skills so
that she can tell us about
any jobs we could do.
Feedback from the Forum
 Wayne
came to talk to us
about benefits.
 We
have a hand out to
give you. It is still
confusing. You need to
make sure you get
special help to fill in
forms.
Feedback from the Forum
 We
voted for a new vice
chair.
 Karen
 She
from London won.
will take over from
Karen from Liverpool
when she leaves.
Thanks for Listening