July 2011

About half of adults with a learning disability received an annual health check with their GP in the past year, a rise of 8% year-on-year, new figures have revealed. But there is much room to improve on this, an expert has warned.
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The Panorama programme on Winterbourne View was broadcast nearly 2 months ago now. Amid much outcry, investigations have begun, with the talk of such things never being allowed to happen again. But since then, on the ground, has anything…
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Care services improvement charity the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has launched new elearning resources and a briefing on the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).  
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The needs of prisoners with learning disabilitiesmay be better met with professional assessment and treatment in a specialist facility that provides services for patients with complex difficulties, including autism or Asperger’s syndrome,…
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Ever since the Welfare Reform Bill was announced in February people have been concerned that those living in residential care will lose their independence if, as the government plans, the mobility component of disability living allowance…
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Residential care services provider Castlebeck failed to comply with 10 essential standards at its Winterbourne View care home in Bristol - subject of a recent Panorama expose - according to a report by regulator the Care Quality Commission…
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Researchers have discovered that siblings of people with autism show a similar pattern of brain activity to that seen in people with autism when looking at emotional facial expressions.
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Care home provider Southern Cross says that it is transferring control of its 750 care homes to others and would be wound up.
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The Commission on Funding of Care and Support has delivered its final report, outlining a vision for social care that includes limits to the amounts people will pay towards residential care, retains universal benefits and introduces…
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Disability Alliance, a coalition of some 250 disability charities and organisations, and law firm Unity Law have issued a 'letter of claim' to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over cuts to benefits.
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