VODG Summer newsletter 2017
Welcome to the VODG Summer newsletter. In this issue find out more about our:
- ongoing focus on Brexit, including a resource to support social care organisations,
- work to support the sector to stop the over-medication of people with a learning disability and/or autism,
- partnership report on co-producing technology,
- networks and events, and
- what is coming up.
STOMP is a health campaign to stop the over-use of psychotropic medication to manage people’s behaviour. Long-term use of these medicines puts people at unnecessary risk of a wide range of side effects including weight gain, organ failure and even premature death.In response VODG, NHS England and sector stakeholders have developed the STOMP pledge for social care organisations that support people with a learning disability and/or autism.

Our annual conference on 13 September (London) is an important date in the VODG calendar for member chief executives and senior directors to come together, hear and debate with sector leaders and parliamentarians and to identify approaches for sector development.
Our news pages provide the latest updates on our work. This includes information about our continued lobbying and campaigning, with our partners, such as on the sleep in shifts challenge facing providers.