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 support in looking after ourselves. 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. In saying that everyone has different needs. 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, which 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 centered 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 Allowance.  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.