Dudley’s Adult Learning Team’s Artspace project has won a national award in the Adult Learning Week Awards for the Learning through Arts, Craft Skills and Culture Project category. A great example of how universal  services can contribute to the making it real agenda. :: more information on...

Partners, providers and voluntary organisations in Dudley are being urged to sign up to the Making it Real principles nationally. So sign up today. Organisations that are currently listed in the borough are: Heantun Housing Association Dudley Council Langstone Society Green Team Dudley Woodford Home Care MDH Support Dudley CIL Dudley Voices for Choice Crossroads Care Action on Hearing New Outlook Housing Association Over 50s club (Little Cornbow) Autism Black Country Social Club, Stourbridge Cygnet House Changing Our Lives Let’s get more Dudley organisations signed up and show our commitment to the principles. Tell us why you signed up and  what it means for your organisation and for the people you...

This document was launched last month and provides detail of how assistive technologies are helping people to stay independent. The report has been commissioned by the VODG (Voluntary Organisations Disabilty Group), the NCF (National Care Forum) working together as Department of Health strategic partners and written by social affairs journalist Saba Salman (www.sabasalman.com), a regular contributor to the Guardian who also manages the VODG blog (www.vodg.org.uk). Have you got any stories of how assistive technology has helped someone you know remain independent? Share them with us. Assistive Technology Report...

A positive report by Dudley Advocacy looking at the lives now of the people who used to live at Ridge Hill Hospital and how their lives compare in the community six years on. Living Life Now final report Dudley Advocacy...

Over the course of this week and last  over 180 people have attended the first 3 of 5 stakeholder workshops that we hosting during May. We have set up a post event page which includes all the information, presentations and documents that were referenced at the events. We also want to encourage as many as possible attendees to complete our on-line questionniare. Videos of the presentations will be published...