We met Julia - Information Officer for the LD Parliament - at the Number 4 cafe in Sedgefield.
Julia had volunteered to help me with my Big Challenge campaign for language and literacy for all, and with my campaign against the cuts, helping me share information on the law and the cuts with other Learning Disability MP's and service users who are affected.
The cakes were delicious, and after the cafe we went into the Black Lion for a game of pool, then over to Shildon to visit my friend from college, Lauren.
But not everything was good news.
Julia told us Brian had crossed our names off the list for going to the Mencap event about fighting the cuts on Wednesday 23 March, and we had been really looking forward to meeting Luke Clements there. Luke is a barrister who specialises in social care and my family has downloaded and studied his and barrister Steve Broach's papers on using the law to fight the cuts.
We knew places were limited but Brian had not told us he had decided we were not in the lucky few who could go :(
My talk about the law and the cuts and how personalisation has gone wrong for me in Co Durham did not make it onto the agenda for March Learning Disability Parliament meeting.
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