January 2013

A new website has been launched aimed at augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users, parents, carers and professionals, which brings together evidence and information to improve support and services for people with speech…
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This week’s Panorama documentary showed that the Government’s Work Programme, designed to get the long-term unemployed into work, often doesn’t provide the support people with disabilities need to help them find a job.
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Disability charity Scope has claimed that the Government’s Work Programme, which is designed to help the long-term unemployed back into work, is not providing the specialist support disabled people need to find work.
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Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT), the main provider of mental health and learning disability services in the county, has become only the third mental health organisation in the country to be awarded University Trust…
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Health and social care provider ubu has opened two new supported living apartments for adults with learning disabilities in Harrogate.
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In the past week, 2 reports have shown how cuts to social care services and benefits are hitting people with disabilities. As the weight of evidence against their policies grows, will the Government listen?
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The first newspaper designed specifically for people with learning disabilities has been launched.
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A team of child psychologists have developed an iPad app that will enable professionals working with children to survey, explore and quantify almost any physical or mental experience or symptom.
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While the Care Quality Commission may have abandoned its star ratings system for residential care services, one provider has created its own version in a bid to drive up standards. Michael Fullerton explains.
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The combination of cuts in benefits and services means that people with severe disabilities will lose an average of £8,832 per person per year – 19 times more than the burden placed on most other citizens – a report has claimed.
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