This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. Did you know, between 2016 – 2017 there were 12.5 million working days lost across all UK workplaces due to mental health related illness?

Well, it's a magic number when you work in learning and development! It's a model that suggests the ratio of learning that takes place and where it takes place. Wouldn't you know it, the 70% is for learning that takes place 'on the job'. If that's the case, how do we know that learning is taking place on the job?

'Involvement at Brandon – how we work and what you can expect' is a new plan to ensure that the people we support and their families know how we work and what they can expect from us.

Earlier this year I had a really interesting opportunity to work alongside one of Brandon’s graduate trainees in co-producing some guidance that we hope will prove useful to people we support, their families, friends, and Brandon frontline staff.

In 2015, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) introduced a new way of inspecting all care services to ensure they focussed on the things that matter to people.

Research shows that people with learning disabilities don't vote as much. I vote sometimes and so do my friends with a learning disability but we find it hard to understand.