Time to move on from the past.

 My name is Sara Jane Gorman; I’m a Visiting Literature in Learning Disability and Mental Health Awareness at the University Of Wolverhampton near where I live. I train and educate the Student Learning Disability nurse at Wolverhampton city and Walsall Campus. I have disabilities and health problems myself.

It’s now getting closer to voting day. I understand for everyone’s’ own reasons people are going to vote the party they want. How these parties work aren't the parties themselves but the people who run them. Sorry to say those of you who vote Tories, even though I respect the good of what they have done for you but they have done no good for the poor and vulnerable people. I understand Labour have made mistakes and the last Labour government made a right mess with Tony Blur with the Iraq war and Gordon Brown having put the banks in debt therefore the Tories needed to save money but there could have been another way of saving that money rather than putting the poor and vulnerable peoples' lives in danger.

Let’s move on now in hopes that the new Labour if they get in very slowly get Britain back to where it used to be but with the complete mess the old Labour and the Tories have made it’s sure to be a very long road so can as many of you as possible can you please vote Labour to slowly get Britain back together again. Good luck Labour.

  There again those of you who vote Labour, I understand you have your own reason to vote but just be aware of how important for Labour to get back through the risks the Tories have been taking in the last five years mainly to the poor and vulnerable people.

The benefit cuts have been a huge certain as I raised awareness of them to my first year student, they are aware of the stress it has had on the health of people disabilities and health problems. I have updated the presentation of the benefit cut awareness I will soon be making the 2^nd year students aware after Easter. A lot of people with disabilities and health problems want to work but many of us are getting misunderstood not wanting and most of us are not getting the support we need like finding the job right us and support on the job. http://www.change.org/p/3200011?recruiter=85458926&utm_campaign=signature_receipt_fb_dialog&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&fb_ref=Default Today I have signed the Petition hoping to put a stop to these benefit cuts people with disabilities and health problems have had to cope with. 10,600 people with disabilities and health problems died last year due to the benefit cut but there could have been twice as people died since the cuts started back in 2009. http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2012/10/04/10600-sick-disabled-people-died-last-year-within-six-weeks-of-their-claim-ending/

 The problem is there are a lot of people with nothing wrong with them who claiming benefits for sake of it. I understand its easy getting job anyway even harder you have disabilities and health problems. People like him make life hard for people with disabilities and health problems equal to others.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/feckless-dad-40-children-dating-5461871?ICID=FB_mirror_main

Even thought I work at the University I only do one or two day a week because I can only earn so much having being on ESA and I still get stress off the jobcentre them saying I’m not doing enough even though I’d loved to do more than what my ESA says I can.

As Tim has made you aware 17% of disabled people are been turned away from voting stations.

https://www.mencap.org.uk/blog/use-your-vote-make-your-voice-heard

I am all for saving the NHS I think I may have signed a petition for that on the internet. One huge worry is that a disabled boy had slept four nights on the floor in hospital. I wonder how many cases have been on like this while David Cameron has been in power.

Thank you so much for reading my email. sarajgorman@gmail.com

                                           

   It seems as time is getting closer to voting David Cameron is causing more and more damage to this country mainly when it comes to the NHS.

Due to peoples’ health the NHS is a huge certain. Wolverhampton City council have reported 135 nursing jobs in Wolverhampton have been asked plus 50 jobs have been axed at Walsall manner hospital. This link will explain better me http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015/04/06/135-wolverhampton-nursing-jobs-axed-in-3-9m-cuts/

The was also a report yesterday on Facebook http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/25-to-see-your-gp-majority-of-doctors-want-to-charge-patients-for-routine-appointments-8732498.html

I understand that everyone has to pay their way and this is going be just as hard for the full time working class. All the same how is this going to work for disabled unwell people on benefits that have to access Healthcare service more so than other people? This is also a huge certain for the elderly who need to access NHS services more so than other people.

We have already lost so many people with disabilities and health problems over the last six years since the cuts first came in through the benefit cuts. On top of that this has happened I think was just before the cuts started. https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/74%20Deaths%20and%20counting%20Easy%20Read%20summary.pdf  

Thank you for reading my email again.

                                      

Sorry bore you with this again but this only an  dating of voting just to remind those of us who work in the lines of learning disability and mental health problems voting it's only about a month or two for voting. I wrote this report back in January and I updating already.

Disabled people finding it hard to understand voting.

Have you been turned away at a polling station because you have a learning disability?
Do you know anyone who has?

People with disabilities and health problems should have a choice whether we vote or not just like you do.

Share your experience, leave a comment below!
Email me if you want to tell your story or someone else’s with their permission

a lot of people may think that people with disabilities may not understand the knowledge behind voting. The government may think that people with disabilities and health problems don't what our rights are but in the minds of the government have vulnerable people got rights? My report isn't just for people with disabilities and health problems to have a say but for other vulnerable people to have a say. Those people who feel their rights are not taken into account. You are more than welcome email me on this issues and any other issues on my website sarajgorman@gmail.com if you want.

 In the eyes of society we don't understand who we are voting for either. Never the less even for non disabled people who vote not everything goes their way.

 For example in the terms of what disabled people are having to cope with today with the benefits cuts, which is putting their lives at risk, I do think it's important we do vote but there should be possible support so we are voting the right party and right person for the right issues. No information is clear to whom you have vote for what. I don't know if anyone or how many of us agree with me but in my opinion it's hardly any wonder they don't all that mean many votes as this government does not make the information clear enough. 

Saying that I must be honest to say all though I myself I haven't been turned away from voting I don't find the cards accessible, which if anything far the opposite for me and there must be other like or not much different to me who feels put off voting . Unless they make the system accessible then they won't get my vote.

Apart from the two parties in each box and putting crosses on your card. It doesn't ask you your reason to vote or more to the point even why, which time and time again nothing gets done about whatever. This can be the same whether you disabled or not anyway. This can make most people stop voting. As there's nowhere on the cards to say your reasons no one can know but like I said it wouldn't make any difference anyway because government has their own mind, the people don't matter in the government's mind and that mean everyone not just disabled people.

If proves even though a lot disabled people are advocates in the mind of the government we don't have a voice. As advocate myself, it doesn't that way, well when it comes to the government anyway.

How many non disabled people don't understand voting compare to disabled people?

I don't know whether I am right or wrong, maybe I misunderstood the information on the cards. For what I see no one asks you the reason why you're voting. No one advises you who to vote depending on what the reason is for example whether it's health, education or and whatever.

This government is so wrong because most disabled must understand most things about voting to become advocates and that does mean non disabled don't understand either.

Just because we cross a bit of card doesn't mean we don't understand the knowledge behind it.

What does this government think that we born yesterday?

On most things we know more than what this government knows.

You are more than welcome email me on this issues and any other issues on my website sarajgorman@gmail.com if you want.

https://www.hear-my-voice.org.uk/listening

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-31838006

http://www.disabilitynow.org.uk/article/reeves-rhetoric-risks-riling-disabled-voters

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/25/disabled-people-shut-out-lack-access-polling-stations?CMP=share_btn_tw

https://www.mencap.org.uk/allaboutvoting

http://www.labour.org.uk/blog/entry/a-better-future-for-disabled-people-manifesto
http://metro.co.uk/2012/12/19/all-disabled-babies-should-be-aborted-claims-ukip-candidate-3322519/?fb_ref=Default

Have you been turned away at a polling station because you have a learning disability?
Do you know anyone who has?

Share your experience, leave a comment below!

Email me if you want to tell your story or someone else’s with their permission

A lot of people may think that people with disabilities may not understand the knowledge behind voting. The government may think that people with disabilities and health problems don't what our rights are but in the minds of the government have vulnerable people got rights? My report isn't just for people with disabilities and health problems to have a say but for other vulnerable people to have a say. Those people who feel their rights are not taken into account. You are more than welcome email me on this issues and any other issues on my website sarajgorman@gmail.com if you want.

 In the eyes of society we don't understand who we are voting for either. Never the less even for non disabled people who vote not everything goes their way.

 For example in the terms of what disabled people are having to cope with today with the benefits cuts, which is putting their lives at risk, I do think it's important we do vote but there should be possible support so we are voting the right party and right person for the right issues. No information is clear to whom you have vote for what. I don't know if anyone or how many of us agree with me but in my opinion it's hardly any wonder they don't all that mean many votes as this government does not make the information clear enough. 

Saying that I must be honest to say all though I myself I haven't been turned away from voting I don't find the cards accessible, which if anything far the opposite for me and there must be other like or not much different to me who feels put off voting . Unless they make the system accessible then they won't get my vote.

 Apart from the two parties in each box and putting crosses on your card. It doesn't ask you your reason to vote or more to the point even why, which time and time again nothing gets done about whatever. This can be the same whether you disabled or not anyway. This can make most people stop voting. As there's nowhere on the cards to say your reasons no one can know but like I said it wouldn't make any difference anyway because government has their own mind, the people don't matter in the government's mind and that mean everyone not just disabled people.

If proves even though a lot disabled people are advocates in the mind of the government we don't have a voice. As advocate myself, it doesn't that way, well when it comes to the government anyway.

How many non disabled people don't understand voting compare to disabled people?

I don't know whether I am right or wrong, maybe I misunderstood the information on the cards. For what I see no one asks you the reason why you're voting. No one advises you who to vote depending on what the reason is for example whether it's health, education or and whatever.

This government is so wrong because most disabled must understand most things about voting to become advocates and that does mean non disabled don't understand either.

Just because we cross a bit of card doesn't mean we don't understand the knowledge behind it.

What does this government think that we born yesterday?

On most things we know more than what this government knows.

You are more than welcome email me on this issues and any other issues on my website sarajgorman@gmail.com if you want.https://www.mencap.org.uk/allaboutvoting

http://www.welfareweekly.com/labour-promises-a-better-future-for-disabled-people/

Awareness of Learning Disability cutbacks.

There's a big worry about the benefit cuts causing people with disabilities and health problems to be homeless. Benefit money isn't enough for people with disabilities and health problems to buy healthy food. Many people need more support to budget their money, which is very hard for them when the government have cut back a lot on Social Care.

 Health staffs aren’t trained to treat people with disabilities and health problems. Stress is a killer for all people but Mental Health and disabilities are stress on its own for eg; people who suffer from Anxiety and depression, Panic Attacks and or even Epilepsy. This is an even bigger danger of making people even ill than when we are.

A lot of people with disabilities and health problems want to work but health issues should be work on before supporting people to find employment.  Otherwise this could cause people with disabilities and health problems to be a health and safety hazards in the work placements as far as employers are curtained. Therefore people need the right support. One of the ways of avoiding health and safety hazards is making sure people have had to correct diagnoses to their disabilities and health problems and to sure they are on the right medications and the right.

Most people with disabilities and health problems have said that the Social don't support them to look for work or they find them jobs that aren't in their ability without support.

A lot of people will find the appeals and courts too stressful without the right support, not everyone has family support. For even those who get support there's only so much support that can be given.

Most people with disabilities and health problems who have elderly member of their families can start to find it hard to look after their selves anymore therefore they will worry about what is going to happen with their family members who have disabilities and health problems. Updated October 26th 2012

In this report I want to raise awareness of the cuts in support for people who need it most.

 This means benefits, social care, health, education, employment and etc. The British government seem to be getting tighter on money. This is affecting everything and everybody but mostly the people who need it most. People who need support in looking after themselves. Not everyone has family support but even a lot of people that do; their families have other things to do in their lives. What about those people who are getting too old to look after their family members and themselves anymore? What help is out there for them when their family member can't look after themselves. Everyone’s needs are different.  Some people need more support than others and this should be accepted. People need support running their home to needing support in personal care.

As for the people who find it hard to make them really understood, we mustn't think that they have never got thoughts even though we may never know about those thoughts. Simple thoughts like for eg; Does that cake taste nice? You may be able to tell by a sad or happy face or even thumbs up or thumbs down. Being homeless is not nice for anyone but people who need more care or and support would find it even harder living on the streets. The way the country is it is hard to think positive about the future mainly for people who need care or and support most. The benefit cuts are a big worry for people with disabilities and health problems. If the cases get any worse there are dangers of people being homeless and hungry. Benefit money isn't enough for people to eat healthily. The government has cut back on Social Care. Not everyone has family support and not everyone gets all the support they need because people have other lives.

The stress of the cuts affect people peoples' lives emotionally mainly people with Mental Health problems. For eg; Anxiety and Depression, this can make people more than what they are. This can make it hard for people to cope with their appeals and in courts so they need plenty of the right support.

This is why health problems need to be worked on first before people look for or and go back to work. There may be a lot of peoples' disabilities and health problems diagnosed wrongly and many may be put on the wrong medications. Many people have said that the Social having been nagging people to find work but the Social are not willing to support them. This is where it causes a lack of communication and understanding so it makes out that people aren't willing to look for work when they are. It's just a good excuse for the Social to take peoples' money off them no matter what.

People with disabilities, health problems and the elderly don't receive the best health care because we don't find it very easy to make ourselves understood. This can cause confusion for eg; having the same health problem but been told different information off different GPs. This can cause people to be put on the wrong medication, which is dangerous.  Cutting back on the benefits and Social care is the biggest problem for a lot of people. No person with disabilities and health problems are saying they don't want to work but health comes first. If our disabilities, health problems and the right medication aren't aware of then the government must understand that we are not safe to go to or back to work even though we would love to.

A lot of this come down to or should come down to support what people want as well as what people need. When we grow into adults equal choices are important to us after so many years of childhood been taken care of to what pleases others that know us, support us and care for us as much as lot is for the right reasons. There needs to be a balance between support and peoples' own control. This is where the person centred plan comes where people who need support have choices in their wants as well as needs

.A lot of people find it hard to communicate but different people in different ways.

 I know there's not a lot we can do but as a learning disability awareness trainer I am writing this report to raise awareness that I am aware that the country is tight on and it's hard to see that people who need most are going to live through this.

Maybe there is a positive but hard to see. This could be happening to a lot of countries not just Britain. I even remember even hearing the saying as a child. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. I don't dislike the rich but it could be true and never change. Winterbourne View Hospital. Now I am raising awareness of abuse. When your family member is in care or and support of others you except your family to be happy and safe. This is very often not always the case. Mencap have come across some shocking cases of abuse in Winterbourne View hospital, where patients with disabilities were staying or and living. I have no idea of the age group of these victims but however old this shouldn't be happening. If you would like to find out more about the cases Winterbourne View Hospital here's the Mencap WWW.mencap.org.uk I am very disappointed that such crime still happens, many years ago there were no CIBS.

The cuts and changes to the benefit. There are a lot of changes and cuts to the benefits in Britain. These changes in the benefit system can make people twice as stressed and ill.

This can even cause death, if it gets far too much for people.

It is so wrong of the government to take money off people who need it most.

No one wishes anyone to be homeless but people with disabilities find it hard to look after ourselves more than other people.

One Tuesday afternoon, I had got a letter off the Benefit office about my Incapacity benefit changing to Employment Support Allowce.  The letter is not very clear to read. It is not good how they have planned the phone calls.  We could get a call any time in 2 weeks.

When the form has to be in for a certain date, which can be a panic when people haven't got the support to fill them in.

 and time. It is hard to plan our support when we don't know when they are going to call.

No one is going to be sitting in their homes every day for 2 week.

People who support people are not sitting in peoples' homes waiting 2 weeks for a call.

They have other lives to live.

 THINGS NEED TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.

Introduction to the update of the 2008 learning disability report and Employment play.

People with disabilities and health problems were starting to be treated better but due to the cuts since 2009, we are not getting as much support as what we should be.

The government is making out there’s support with employment but not enough due to the cuts.  People with disabilities and health problems are accepted to look for work but they are not given enough support to do so.

I understand that these cutbacks are a big worry we want to move forward not backwards and if the government is making a lot of cuts on important things then the country is moving backwards not forwards.

I used to be a Learning Disability MP; I want to see things moving forward not backwards. With people with disabilities and health problems, all of all of us in different ways need support to live our lives equal to other people.

 If this affects you or someone or you know with their permission, I would be I would be interested in peoples' responses to this report. Please email me on sarajgorman@gmail.com.

The employment rate is high anyway; people without disabilities get the same problem but having disabilities give you even more problems. Most people with disabilities are or and have been on the dole for years, training scheme the same boring kind of work for years or even or and doing voluntary work for too many years.

Better support

Confidence building

People with learning disabilities should train others around learning disability awareness.

Support for everyone no matter how big or small.

Employers should create more jobs for people with disabilities.

Most people with disabilities are very creative, why should that be wasted?

Changes need to be changed suit peoples' wants and needs.

Attitudes need to get better.

Penned but if the government doesn't spend the money on the right things we will be moving backwards not forwards, which is what no one wants to do.

2012 figures of employed and unemployed people with disabilities and health problems.

3 .5 of people with disabilities in the UK are on a work programme, that has failed to its target. 55% are on a work programme accessing employment. Only 5.35 have found employment in 6 months or more.

How the lives of people with disabilities and health problems can be affected.

There can be a lack of communication and understanding between children and teachers in my case it was because of the strong medication I used to take for my epilepsy. I didn't leave school with any qualifications.

 If this is still going on for people with Health problems then Health staffs need to work harder to look into whether their medication is affecting their lives or not. You are welcome to email your story or someone else's with their permission on sarajgorman@gmail.com if you want.

Things need to change for the better in all issues.

 I use to be a Wolverhampton Learning disability MP for the People's Parliament with many other people with disabilities as Learning Disability MPs.

We don't have the job compliantly the same as the Houses of Parliament. We have only just started our plan is to look out for people with learning disabilities in what they need and want. We have the understanding because have learning disabilities ourselves. In the future we would like to talk people with disabilities to find out there needs and wants, and then tell the government. Like all people the government hasn't got any idea of people's needs and wants, they don't make their to find out than voting, then half the time you don't what your voting for or what you want to vote for isn't there. It's hard to explain because it's so much jargon.

 By finding out in a face to face contact is better than this voting jargon so we want won't do our job until people with disabilities tell us their wants and needs, by giving people choice and control with the right support.

 If you have learning disabilities or and Mental Health Problems please email me your Learning Disability MPs about your needs and want on anything at all. sarajgorman@gmail.com only with your say so I will write on your behave to the Houses of Parliament MPs to make them aware of what you need or and want, I will do my best to make sure you get it.

Now many people with disabilities learned very easy at school, we had to catch up when we left and enrol on the same kind of courses at the colleges for years without jobs at the end of it; a lot of people are saying that this is still going on now. There wasn't enough support, as a Learning Disability Mp I would like to see a lot of support in schools and colleges but Mencap but bought out a report saying a lot of courses for people with disabilities are cutting back.

At the moment the Learning Disabilities MPs are working on employment we want would if you have learning disabilities or and Mental Health Problems we would like to hear about stories and experiences on employment. With your so say you email me on sarajgorman@gmail.com you can tell me and I will tell the other MPs only if you want, I won't if you don't want me to tell. How can we thing good for you if they are bad? How can we make things better if they are good? We are here for you if you want us to help you.

If you read the report on this website that I wrote in 2008 about employment, I disappointed to know that not a lot has changed for people with learning disabilities abed work since then, this is why I want to find out how many people with disabilities are working in Britain. I wrote this 2008 report to tell to my readers that I wrote an Employment play telling people in who work Employment services about our experiences of asking, getting employment and how we have been treated in the work placement.

 We were told the play was a success but we didn't a great of feedback. Someone with disabilities and his employer even did a talk; this employer seemed to be very happy with this person's.

 This shows when it comes to talents society loses out. People with disabilities have been disbelieved for the things we are good at for so long; it's time for non disabled people to see the good in people with disabilities. Many of us can paint, draw, write and etc as much as you so it's time to create new jobs for people with these talents and other abilities too.

Open the doors to the working learning disability world with the right support wherever it is. If you have disabilities and you want to make a start of a creative career, please get in touch with this website called Working parts if you live in the Midlands and Black Country. 
WWW.workingparts.co.uk