Stories from March, 2024:
This year World Down Syndrome Day calls on people to be With Us Not For Us. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities calls for everyone to have the freedom to make their own choices. People with Down syndrome often have controlling support with supporters doing things for them, not with […]
Mark has learning disability and Down syndrome diagnosis. He’s lived in his own flat at National Care Group’s Merry Den supported living in the Forest of Dean since 2013. Mark lives a fulfilling, mostly independent life. He’s very sociable, loving, and friendly and is a loyal and caring friend to his neighbours. In recent years, […]
When a person we support at National Care Group’s Springvale Resource Centre refused to cook for himself and was unmotivated to try, support worker Julie was determined to help him understand the importance of a nutritional diet. It became so much more than that, when Julie’s passion to improve the diets of the people we […]
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