January 2015

Pavilion's Pathways to Employment: Making it Work for Autistic People Conference offered practical information, guidance, examples and evidence to help identify and navigate pathways into sustainable employment for autistic people.
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More than half of inpatients with learning disabilities who were resident in specialist hospital units in 2013 were still there a year later, the latest Learning Disability Census has revealed.
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Ensuring high quality community-based alternatives to hospital are in place and tightening regulation and inspection of service providers are two key ambitions to overhaul services for people with learning disabilities, according to a…
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A CMG service for people living with learning disabilities is the first of its kind in England to have been rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission.
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It is now less than 100 days until the general election and the political parties are already posturing and making announcements about what they would do if they won on May 7. So now is the time for people with learning disabilities to get…
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Applications for use of the deprivation of liberty safeguards have soared, from about 13,000 a year to around 55,000 in the first two quarters of 2014/15, figures from the Care Quality Commission have revealed.
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Education experts have recommended the introduction of a competency framework to strengthen learning disability education for all nursing students.
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People with learning disabilities and autism are being supported to live more independently thanks to a new technology partnership.
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Children’s films Big Hero 6, Shaun the Sheep and The Penguins of Madagascar are among February’s Autism Films, service provider Dimensions has confirmed.
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A new resource about cervical screening (smear tests) has been launched to try and address the poor uptake of screening for women with learning disabilities.
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