April 2013

This year’s CREATE! Art for Autism competition has been launched and is seeking entries from children and young people with an autistic spectrum condition (ASC) or Asberger’s syndrome.
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A group of actors with learning disabilities are to stage a play that highlights hate crime and prejudice against people with learning disabilities in Parliament later this month.
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National learning disability self-advocacy organisation All Wales People First has appointed Joe Powell as its national director, after a nationwide competitive recruitment campaign.
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The changeover from disability living allowance (DLA) to personal independence payment (PIP) began recently, with the concerns of many claimants with learning disabilities still unresolved.
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A residential social care service for adults aged 18 and over has been opened in Stockport as part of a pathway into independent living by health care services provider Cygnet Health Care.
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Five new state-of-the-art self-contained flats, designed to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges, are to open in Kent on April 17.
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Young people with special educational needs (SEN) living in North and East London have the opportunity to join a new training and employment scheme.
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Pavilion’s 2012 Learning Disability Today conference has been shortlisted for the upcoming Conference Awards 2013, under the category ‘Best Conference alongside an Exhibition’.
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Health and social care services provider Care UK has acquired Living Ambitions, which provides supported living services for adults with learning disabilities in Lancashire and Salford.
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With clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) taking over commissioning of local health services, now is the time to ensure they give services for people with learning disabilities the prominence they deserve.
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