Help Us Be Safe

HUBS media release.

Blade Education is delighted to announce that it has been given some funding by the Essex Community Safety Fund to support adults with learning disabilities to explain for themselves what everyone else could do to help them live safer and more fulfilling lives in South East Essex. 

For anyone who isn’t sure, the NHS explains that “A learning disability affects the way a person learns new things throughout their life.”  What’s complicated about is that a learning disability is unique to each person. No two people are the same.

However, an adult with a learning disability who has capacity to live independently will probably have some difficulty with understanding complicated information, learning some skills and navigating the world safely.  The Help US Be Safe Project (HUBS) has been funded to work with those people with learning disability who have the capacity to access the world alone without a carer to find out what else is needed to keep them safe and make them more confident of the world around them.

The first part of the project is about to listening and learning from the experts in this field, adults with learning disabilities in SE Essex.  The HUBS team are going to be out visiting, holding meetings in person and online alongside our HUBS Ambassadors.  The HUBS Steering Group will support the HUBS Project managers to put together a report on what life is like for them right now so that we can move on to the second part of the project which is using that report to designing training for community safety teams, the police and anyone who wants to learn more about how to be a community safety advocate for this community.  This training will be led by members of the LD community.