March 2013

There is still a widespread lack of understanding of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), with the use of restraint a particular concern, a report by social care regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revealed.
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In this guest blog, Steve Palmer talks about how a T-shirt slogan is galvanising parents of, and people with, Down’s syndrome – and how social media is also playing its part in this.
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Following the publication of Living in a Different World, consultant editor of Policing Today Philip Mason talks about the criminal justice system's gradually changing attitude towards society's most vulnerable people.
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The lack of a certain protein in the brains of people with Down’s syndrome could be a cause of learning and memory problems, according to a US study.
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A test has been launched in Wales that aims to ensure people with learning disabilities in supported living enjoy the same tenancy rights, responsibilities, choice and control in their homes as any other tenants.
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Chancellor George Osborne’s budget has been criticised by disability charities and service users for offering little to people with disabilities.
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Children with special educational needs (SEN) are 9 times more likely to be permanently excluded from school than the general pupil population, an official report has found.
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The Government has said that disabled children should be exempt from controversial new housing benefit size criteria rules – the “bedroom tax” – but learning disability charity Mencap has called for this to be extended to adults as well.
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People with learning disabilities die, on average, 16 years before their counterparts without a disability, and more than a third of these premature deaths are avoidable, a study has found. This scandal has to be addressed, and urgently.
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A cross-party group of MPs and peers has warned that the Government has not fully thought through its social care reforms and that without greater integration with health and housing, and a focus on prevention and early intervention, the…
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