August 2014

The terms of reference, scoping solution and minutes from inaugural meeting of the steering group set up to develop recommendations for the development of a national framework for local commissioning of community based support for people…
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The steering group set up by NHS England to cut the number of people who live in assessment and treatment-style units needs to rethink its objectives if it is to have the best chance of succeeding, a group of learning disability experts has…
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The 2017 Special Olympics Great Britain National Summer Games will be held in Sheffield from August 7 to 11, the organisation has confirmed.
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Britain's leading learning disability swimmers have followed a hugely successful first-ever Commonwealth Games with three medals on the first day of the IPC European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven.
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A Herefordshire-based learning disability arts project has performed to their largest-ever audience with a play about the value of orchards created and performed by students at Echo’s About Face Theatre Company.
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A steering group set up by NHS England to develop recommendations for the establishment of a national framework for local commissioning of community-based support for people with learning disabilities will complete its work by the end of…
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A woman from Swansea with autism is to be moved to a specialist unit in Brighton after a judge upheld the decision of the local health board.
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The chief executive of Down’s Syndrome UK has expressed her shock and sadness about the case in Australia of a baby with Down’s syndrome being abandoned by her adoptive parents, apparently because of his disability.
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The Law Commission has launched a 3-year project to consider how deprivation of liberty should be authorised and supervised in settings other than hospitals and care homes.
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With the school summer holidays now upon us, this month’s Autism Friendly Film line-up has a range of children’s films to choose from: The Nut Job, Planes 2, Earth to Echo and Maleficent.
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