March 2013

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 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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People with learning disabilities die 16 years sooner on average than the general population and more than a third of these deaths are down to people not getting the right healthcare, official research has concluded.
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A group of people with learning disabilities at a Doncaster day service wrote and recorded their own song for Red Nose Day recently.
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Investment to support people with learning disabilities into paid employment is declining and many commissioners do not have access to the data they need on services they commission, according to new research.
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There is no national organisation for self-advocacy in England, but there should be, says Gary Bourlet
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That a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report said that the quality of learning disability services varies widely across the country, and is not improving quickly enough, will not have been a surprise to anyone. Nor is the call for urgent…
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