Did you know 1 in 5 children face mental health challenges?
Learn more from @Place2Be this #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek!
#CMHW2026
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Two hands hold up a symbol of the earth. Writing says 'World Cancer Day'. There are swirls and the purple ribbon symbolising the day.
🌎 It’s World Cancer Day and this year’s theme is United by Unique, highlighting the importance of person-centred cancer care.
We value feedback on care across England from those whose voices are not usually heard.
Share yours: bit.ly/4qZ5TOo
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The LeDeR Annual Report (Learning from Lives and Deaths: People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People) has been updated and released.
Read the revised version here: www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/assets...
30.01.2026 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📰 In our January newsletter:
- Hearing Children and Young People’s Voices in Mental Health Care
- Pinpoint have joined PEN
- Dates for your diary
Read it: mailchi.mp/58c1d6781233...
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👩⚕️It’s Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2026
Cervical cancer is preventable and all women and people with a cervix must be included in preventative healthcare
See The Eve Appeal to learn more about cervical screening for trans men and non-binary people: tinyurl.com/hr8hav8r
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Every day in the UK, two women and people with a cervix lose their lives to cervical cancer.
We can change this through raising awareness this Cervical Cancer Awareness Month.
Find out more at eveappeal.org.uk/campaigns/ce...
#CervicalCancerAwarenessMonth
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Choice Support's Public Engagement Network (PEN) gathers the voices of those who are not usually heard by Care Quality Commission, England’s independent health and adult social care regulator.
PEN is made up of community groups and charities and from across England.
Learn more tinyurl.com/2s3bcv2m
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🎆Happy New Year from all at the PEN team!
Join us in 2026 to hear the voices of people with protected characteristics who have lived experience of using health and adult social care services in England.
Learn more about PEN: bit.ly/45xQdXj
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✨ 2025 has been particularly rewarding for Choice Support’s Public Engagement Network (PEN) as the network has grown and as CQC has been making changes to how it works as well ~ Brittany Hutchings, PEN Communications Officer
Read more: bit.ly/49pVfZx
#2025highlights
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✨ This year, I have enjoyed working with a really supportive team here at PEN ~ Ellen Brown, Community Engagement Officer for the South of England
Read more: bit.ly/49pVfZx
#2025highlights
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✨ I have been engaging with PEN members across the area, and also managed to get invited to a couple of their Christmas celebrations! ~ Emma Noon, Community Engagement Officer for London and the East of England
Read more: bit.ly/49pVfZx
#2025highlights
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A hand-drawn Christmas card with a large decorative Christmas tree in the centre. It has a big present underneath and there is a snowman holidng a balloon next to it. Santa says "ho ho ho" as he rides in his sleigh in the sky, drawn by reindeer. Bubble writing says Merry Christmas at the top of the card.
Wishing a very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and happy holidays to all from everyone here at the PEN team!🎄
This year’s card was designed by James Clark at Tuck by Truck in Aylesford, the winner of this year’s Christmas card competition at Choice Support.
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'Throughout 2025 we have been working to rebuild CQC to get us back to our purpose of providing effective regulation of health and adult social care services'
🗓️An end of year message from CQC's chief inspectors: bit.ly/3MRBrGC
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✨ I’ve heard peoples’ lived experiences of care to gain real insight into the health and social care experiences of people who have protected characteristics ~ Diane, Community Engagement Officer for the Midlands
Read more: bit.ly/49pVfZx
#2025highlights
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✨ My highlight for 2025 has been joining Choice Support as part of the Public Engagement Network team and having the opportunity to connect with and learn from PEN members ~ Josie, PEN Team Leader
Read more: bit.ly/49pVfZx
#2025highlights
22.12.2025 09:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our December newsletter is now out! ✨
- Read our team's highlights for 2025
- New PEN members announced and
- See our upcoming events in the new year!
Read it: bit.ly/4s6mdxE
19.12.2025 13:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are delighted to welcome CamSight to our network!
CamSight is a local charity that has been supporting people with low vision and blindness across Cambridgeshire since 1912.
Visit: www.camsight.org.uk/
18.12.2025 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Title reads missingness in healthcare. A diverse group of animnated people stand in front of a pale yellow rectangle. Behind them is a photograph of a calendar.
Missingness is the repeated tendency not to take up offers of care and where this has a negative impact on a person and their life circumstances.
What we learned from The Patients Association: gqr.sh/hsCG
15.12.2025 10:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A man is working on his tablet, surrounded by a golden bubble. The text reads Have your say: CQC Assessment Framework. The Care Quality Commission logo is in the bottom right corner of the image.
🙋Have your say on how the Care Quality Commission (CQC) assess and rate health and adult social care providers
Consultation closes tomorrow at 5pm
Find it: gqr.sh/m4nW
and in Easy Read: bit.ly/4pvg3oY
10.12.2025 16:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks for pointing that out!
05.12.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read how Anxiety UK members shared lived experiences of care with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to help improve mental health regulation and services
👉 shorturl.at/Wmv1y
04.12.2025 14:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's International Day of Persons with Disabilities #IDPD2025
We work to hear the voices of people with disabilities who use health and adult social care services, including at our advisory group for autistic people and people with a learning disability
www.choicesupport.org.uk/public-engag...
03.12.2025 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Our November newsletter is out now! 📰 This month read
* Anxiety UK's webinar to engage with the CQC
* Have your say on 'How the CQC Assess and Rate Providers'
* Missingness in Healthcare
mailchi.mp/4323ac2629fc...
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“I feel like I went from being able to care for my mum to being a visitor overnight.” Steve, carer
Together Against Dementia Everyday (Tide) explores experiences of shared care for unpaid carers who support a person with dementia 🤲
Read more: www.choicesupport.org.uk/public-engag...
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November is Men's Health Awareness Month #Movember 🥸
This includes a focus on men's mental health.
Find a conversation guide for talking about mental health from Mental Health UK: euc7zxtct58.exactdn.com/wp-content/u...
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It’s the final day of #SafeguardingAdultsWeekled by
the Ann Craft Trust
Here, you can learn about the exploitation of adults with cognitive impairments: www.anncrafttrust.org/exploitation...
21.11.2025 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s #SafeguardingAdultsWeek led by the Ann Craft Trust
Today’s focus is on trusting your instincts and how we can build our courage and resilience as individuals to speak out.
Read about whistleblowing in health and social care: www.anncrafttrust.org/what-is-whis...
20.11.2025 17:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s Ann Craft Trust's #SafeguardingAdultsWeek
Today’s theme is Creating Empowering Environments to explore how empathy, understanding, co-production, and positive risk taking can help create trauma informed approaches.
Learn more: www.anncrafttrust.org/events/safeg...
19.11.2025 18:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s Ann Craft Trust's #SafeguardingAdultsWeek
This year’s aim is to ‘change the conversation’ around safeguarding, so we can prevent abuse from happening in the first place.
Read more: www.anncrafttrust.org/safeguarding...
17.11.2025 17:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our latest newsletter is out now!
Read our summary of the Care Quality Commission (CQC)'s annual State of Care report
Making Shared Care a Reality by Together in Dementia Everyday (tide)
and our upcoming events
📰https://mailchi.mp/5330124ba0f3/pens-monthly-newsletter-10151062?e=669ba85972
31.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We fight for children's rights in institutional settings. Executive Director - Jodie Wickers.
Brought as much as we could when we left the other platform. More on our website: https://article39.org.uk
Multi-agency partnership working together to safeguard adults at risk of abuse or neglect in North Yorkshire #SafeguardingIsEverybodysBusiness
A charity run by and for people with learning disbailities in Norfolk
TIGER UK is a new network for people passionate about sharing insights and working together to improve gynaecological experiences.
Suffolk Sight is the sight-loss charity for Suffolk.
Our purpose is to improve the lives of people affected by sight loss.
We work hard to provide services that are friendly & practical, and to raise awareness of living with sight loss.
Europe's first radio station for blind and partially sighted people.
Freeview 730/Online/Smart Devices
Community Station Of The Year at The ARIAS 2024.
Website: https://www.rnib.org.uk/connect-radio/
Header photo: young boy with headphones on relaxing.
Providing a holistic range of easy to access, and free, locations and activities dedicated to supporting South Staffordshire. We support people to reduce social isolation, and support people with mental and physical health and well-being, plus much more.
Free sexual health check-ups, counselling, creative workshops & social groups. Run by people who’ve been there too.
• Confidential • Inclusive • Outreach & resources
📍London
Multi-award winning grassroots campaign for unpaid carers in the UK. Led by carers, for carers.
wecarecampaign.org.uk
The official account of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
This account is monitored from 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday.
Dementia Community is a Charitable Community Benefit Society, a membership cooperative that provides learning and networking opportunities for the dementia care community. For more information please visit our website: journalofdementiacare.co.uk
Fighting for mental health – for support, for respect, for you ✊
News, articles and debate for professionals working with people with a learning disability and autistic people.
https://www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/
The UK's leading title for the voluntary and not-for-profit sector. Home of the Third Sector Podcast: https://podfollow.com/thirdsector/view
We campaign for blind and partially sighted people's independence and inclusion. Also at @rnib.bsky.app
Header image: The team at Downing Street.
The DCP is a coalition of organisations campaigning to improve support for disabled children, young people & families. https://disabledchildrenspartnership.org.uk/
We support people with learning disabilities & autistic people and campaign WITH them. We are non-profit care provider. #BetterLivesForMorePeople
Sibs is the UK charity dedicated to supporting siblings of disabled children and adults. www.sibs.org.uk
We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
