Dimensions

22/12/2025

What a busy December with shows, lights, trips, crafts, parties, food and, most of all, dancing!

🎅 Merry Christmas to you from all of us at Dimensions, Discovery Learning Disability Support, Dimensions and Outreach 3 Way

19/12/2025

🎄 Christmas is a time for tradition but you can also make your own. People with learning disabilities and autistic people can find it easily overwhelming with different routines and more socialising, lights, noise, smells and touch.

Carers also need to allow time recharge batteries. So here are some top tips from our families to yours to include everyone during the holiday period.

Image of a hand drawn gift and fairy lights that says:

Make your own traditions and agree your boundaries before visits and events.
It's ok to eat foods you know.
Don't be a paparazzi! Agree times for photos.
Wrap gifts together or put them unwrapped in a bag to reduce tension.
Plan time to recharge. Don't try to do it all!

What do you do to include your family?

05/12/2025

We're celebrating our wins for 2025! What are you proud of?

04/12/2025

😊 We celebrating our highlights of 2025!


[Image of Karen excited about her new home in the style of Spotify wrapped:

Dimensions UK top wins

1 UK Best workplace 7 years in a row
2 94% of our colleagues paid Real Living Wage or above
3 Influenced government to u-turn on £5 billion of benefit cuts
4 85.4% of homes rated Good or Outstanding by CQC
5 Person we support Matt Lester advocates in parliament and national TV]

03/12/2025

"I see colleagues who’ve worked in the same supported living home for 20 years, and the trust and connection that length of time supporting the same people brings."

🏠 Our CEO, Rachael Dodgson, spent another week as a support worker so that she can ensure her decision making remains grounded in the real lives of people we support and our support workers.

Read about her week:
https://www.carehomeprofessional.com/ceo-becomes-care-worker
Care Home Professional

28/11/2025

It's nearly time for Whamageddon! How far will you get?

28/11/2025

🎵 It's nearly time!

We are playing . If you hear the original version of Last Christmas after Monday 1st
December until midnight on Christmas Eve you are out.

Let us know how long you last. Share with your friends and good luck!

27/11/2025

Here is our easy to read guide to the to help you understand the main changes.
How do you feel about the decisions the government has made?

26/11/2025

“Today’s Budget says nothing about adult social care.

The government has effectively abdicated its responsibility for reforming adult social care in this parliament. Instead, the government is waiting for the Casey Commission to release its findings, with the final report not due until 2028.

Yet adults with learning disabilities and autistic people who draw on support cannot wait that long. Neither can the 1.5 million people working in social care.

The government’s September announcement of £500 million for the Fair Pay Agreement for social care - which like the Casey Commission, won’t be implemented before 2028 - is nowhere near enough.

This Budget both could and should have ring-fenced money to invest in the social care workforce in advance of the first Fair Pay Agreement for social care in 2028.

We need faster action and appropriate funding – and recognition for the social care workforce to support recruitment, retention, and consistent, high-quality support for those who rely on it. The time to act is now."

Responding to today’s from the Chancellor, Rachael Dodgson, Chief Executive of Dimensions.

14/11/2025

👏 Loving this from our Discovery colleagues! now that's a !
Great British Care Awards

🥳 We're so proud and excited for our Discovery teams celebrating at the GBcareawards last night!

Congratulations to Keinan, Nicola and the Coach House team who won and are headed for the national finals.

😍 And a huge hug and glass of bubbly for all our finalists and nominees who set the standard for great person centred care.

https://www.dimensions-uk.org/news-item/discovery-colleagues-honoured-at-the-great-british-care-awards/

[Photo shows Keinan with short brown hair and beard in a red shirt supporting Nigel, an older man with white hair wearing cream]

14/11/2025

Wes Streeting has pledged to act after Dimensions consultant Matt Lester joined advocates from across the UK to speak to ITV News about their concerns for the future.

👉 Watch the ITV report at bit.ly/LifeWithDisability

11/11/2025

“Whatever happens in the budget, we are going to face some big challenges and if we don’t raise concerns that we’re raising today, we’ll lose bus passes, we’ll lose blue badges.

“We’ll lose everything,” Matt

Matthew Lester speaks to ITV news about his work in Parliament to raise the voices of people with disabilities. Watch him tonight on ITV or on catch up.

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-11-11/it-felt-like-they-had-given-up-on-me-life-with-a-learning-disability