August 2014

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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