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Josephine and Jack are a unique approach to supporting people with learning disabilities to talk about relationships and sex.

Supported Loving is about highlighting the importance of good support to help people with learning disabilities to have loving relationships. This becomes even more important for staff working with people with more complex needs around relationships, sexuality and intimacy.

Love is one of the seven keys to citizenship, Dr Simon Duffy, Centre for Welfare Reform.

I’m Maxine, I work at Guideposts co-ordinating Mates 'n' Dates, our friendship and dating scheme for adults with learning disabilities in Oxfordshire.

I first joined Mates 'n' Dates about a year ago. Mates 'n' Dates help people with learning disabilities to meet others and form a friendship or relationship - whatever your heart desires, basically.

I’m Helena, sister and founder of Happily friendship and dating agency. I want to share my personal experiences from the learning disability dating scene and why I have decided to launch my own agency, Happily.

Leanne and David explain what good relationship support means to them.

A woman who needs support wants to find a sex worker. What are the safety implications for everyone involved?

I attended my first Supported Loving event last week. What a great day. Sexual relationships are an important part of most people’s lives, but for people with learning disabilities this is often not the case.

Learning Disability Today publishes blog by Dr Claire Bates on LGBT Pride.