Kate Belmonte is the Green party parliamentary candidate for Gillingham & Rainham
I asked Kate about the Learning Disabilities Good Lives manifesto. Here is what she said:
I am very proud to be a member of your group and having physical disabilities myself I understand and empathise with all of the communities members. Through my work I am trying to provide more community sessions for those with a whole host of disabilities including those with learning disabilities.
As per your requests I agree to be a champion for the rights of all people with learning disabilities, including people from minority ethnic communities and with high support needs.
1 I agree to fighting to reform social care so it meets the rights of people with learning disabilities and their families and provides fair pay for social care workers.
2. I will work to provide effective, reasonably adjusted health services that contribute to better health and raising life expectancy for people with learning disabilities
3. I will help people with learning disabilities get the jobs they want, supported by a system that recognises contributions not forcing poverty.
4. I will campaign to make sure people with learning disabilities have the same access to housing options as their nondisabled peers.
5. I am running a campaign which I hope will be as inclusive as possible, my disabilities make evening events very difficult and I have so far agreed to attend 3 hustings; I will be at St Margaret’s Church in Rainham tomorrow evening, on Monday I will be at the KMTV hustings at the Gillingham Greenwich University Campus and next Thursday I will be at St Mark’s Church in Gillingham.