April 2014

A new project offering wheelchair-adapted bicycles for people with disabilities has been launched in Warmley near Bristol and will be partly run by people with learning disabilities.
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Housing, support and employment provider Advance and KeyRing, an organisation that develops and supports local networks for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems are to merge this month.
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The government has published Think Autism, an update to the 2010 adult autism strategy, Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives.
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Family films Rio 2, Muppets Most Wanted and Escape from Planet Earth will be April’s Autism Friendly Films, service provider Dimensions has announced.
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Young people with autism are nearly twice as likely to be classified as not in education, employment or training (NEET) compared with other young people, and without urgent action to improve opportunities, we risk “writing off a generation”…
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Only one third of the money invested in schemes to help people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities into work goes to approaches known to make an effective difference, a study has found.
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Mencap has renewed its call for a National Learning Disability Mortality Review to be established in the wake of the latest preventable death of a person with learning disabilities at an NHS hospital.
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