Welcome to the 'New Look' National Learning Disabiility and Ethnicity Network Website!

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This website is supported by the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales and the Department of Health. A funded project which has been set up to run a good practice / information sharing network on all initiatives concerned with Learning Disability and Ethnicity. The project began in August 2003 and was formally launched by Stephen Ladyman, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health at a national conference in London.


This website contains information drawn from the newsletter of the Network.

The Network exists to:
• Encourage the sharing of good practice
• Inform policy by collective response
• Provide information
• Provide opportunity for discussion
• Share training resources
• Keep people informed in order to make change happen.

The project produces three newsletters a year and hosts an annual conference as well as facilitates networks and information sharing amongst interested parties. In order to be part of this network please contact us or click here to download a membership form and post or fax to:

Pam Smith, ARC, ARC House, Marsden Street, Chesterfield S40 1JY
Tel: 01246 555 043 / Fax: 01246 555 045

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ARC is a membership organisation, which supports providers of services to people with a learning disability. Members' services include daytime & leisure activities, support to people in their own homes, residential services, training for employment, special schools & colleges, staff training and information and advice. www.arcuk.org.uk