Working with the National Lottery Community Fund

Working with the National Lottery Community Fund

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Expert Information and Advice Caseworker Project

The National Lottery Community Fund will give Mencap more than 3 hundred thousand pounds over 3 years.

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Mencap will use the money to employ 2 new learning disability caseworkers. Caseworkers are people who give information and advice.

A large group of people with different needs.

The caseworkers will give information and advice to over 1 thousand people.

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The caseworkers will be able to give the information and advice in different ways to help people with a learning disability to understand it.

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The information and advice might be:

  • in easy read
  • a video
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What will the project do?

  • The project will help 1 thousand people with a learning disability get help as soon as possible and stop their problems turning into an emergency.
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  • The learning disability caseworkers will help 1 thousand people with a learning disability, their family and people who help them to find out about help in the area where they live.
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  • 8 out of 10 people will tell us that at least 1 part of their life has got better.
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  • People with a learning disability and their families will get better information and advice about money help and benefits.  This will help them to get more money.
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  • People with a learning disability will have better lives because the project will help them to get the help they need with their health, their money and to speak up.