The Storm and Thunder team have been working on making our campaigning information more accessible – here’s some information they’ve written, and illustrated, which we’ve turned in to a leaflet to send people running our campaign stands. You can download the leaflet here. The aim of this piece of work is to help us in researching why people are leaving learning disability club nights early.

Researching to help people to have a better social life

Stay Up Late want to help people with a learning disability to have a better social life.

It’s important for everyone to make choices about how they live their lives and be more independent.Stay Up Late are asking people why they are leaving early so that they can find out what needs to change for people to have better social lives.

They are also asking people why they are staying late so they can find out what is going well and what kinds of good support people have too.

Stay Up Late found out that sometimes people may choose to leave events early because they are tired or have something to do the next day.

At other times, people might not choose to leave gigs or other events before 9pm– they might be told they have to leave.

One reason for this might be because people have to take their medication.

Another reason might be because they have to catch the train or bus to get home.

Sometime’s peoples support staff finish their shifts at 10pm so this can also mean that they have to leave at 9pm.

Knowing this can help Stay Up Late ask questions about what kind of transport people need and how this affects their social lives.

It can also make people think about how the shifts that support staff work need to change so they can support people to go out later.

When Stay Up Late know the barriers that people face that stop them having a full and active social life they can start to think about how these can be overcome.

(Thanks too to our fabulous summer intern Jade who supported Storm and Thunder with this piece of work)

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