December 2013

Christmas came early for two residents of a European Care Group home when they recently received a priceless gift from their favourite singing star.
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An autism campaigner has branded the autism diagnosis process “not fit for purpose” after a survey revealed that more than half of families have to wait five years or more for a diagnosis for their child.
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Residents living at a learning disability service in Wales are enjoying fresh eggs and home-grown vegetables thanks to a farming project.
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The government has launched its disability and health employment strategy, but a consortium of charities says that it needs to go further to address the issues that people with disabilities face.
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The principal investigator for the Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities (CIPOLD) has criticised the government for the pace of its response to the report’s findings.
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The government has admitted that although progress has been made in the past year towards achieving the goals of improving learning disability hospital services, a great deal more needs to be done.
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Six in 10 people with learning disabilities who are inpatients in hospital treatment centres have lived there for more than a year and, of those, more than a quarter have been resident for more than 5 years, new figures have found.
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As another year draws to a close, we start to look forward to what 2014 may bring. But, as with the past few years, for some people with learning disabilities, it seems that there will be little that will bring cheer in the New Year.
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The High Court has ruled that a local authority must support a child with Down’s syndrome and complex medical needs from a Traveller family, even when his family are working in other parts of Britain.
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While some public bodies have made progress in tackling disability hate crime in the past year, overall more needs to be done, a report has found.
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