November 2012

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced learning disability residential services provider Castlebeck – which ran the former Winterbourne View hospital – will no longer sponsor RCN Publishing’s 2013 Learning Disability Nursing…
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An initiative by service provider Choice Support to remove waking night staff from community-based supported living services for people with learning disabilities has saved a local authority £250,000, a report has found.
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English Heritage is to launch an online resource later this year which will map changing attitudes to disability over the past 1,000 years through historic buildings.
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A rural care community in Cornwall has come up with a novel way to support one of its residents who has autism – by building him a new home from a former chicken shed.
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The family of a man are calling for a previous case of alleged abuse at the former Winterbourne View residential hospital to be re-investigated.
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Authorities still need to do more to ensure disability hate crime is properly addressed, according to a report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
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Sunnyside House’s My LIFE training programme is helping residents with learning disabilities to learn the skills they need to not just live an independent life but thrive in their own home. Editor Dan Parton reports.
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