June 2015

‘Sustained and substantial’ additional funds need to be made available to ensure care and support services for older and vulnerable people are to be maintained, according to directors of adult social services.
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Representatives from nearly 50 major businesses have come together to discuss how to get more young people with learning disabilities into meaningful paid employment.
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New resources have been launched that aim to aid professionals when they are making deprivation of liberty decisions.
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Artwork created by people with learning disabilities that was rescued from the former Strathmartine Hospital has now been deposited with Dundee University Archives, as part of the Heritage Lottery-funded Strathmartine Hospital Histories…
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Last weekend saw the fourth anniversary of the broadcast of the BBC’s Panorama documentary uncovering abuse at Winterbourne View, the residential hospital for people with learning disabilities. Since then, have things really changed for…
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A student at Minstead Training Trust for people with Learning Disabilities has hosted his first exhibition and sale at RUM’S EG Gallery, Romsey.
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A teenager has been jailed for 8 years for attempting to groom a man with learning disabilities into committing acts of terror, including killing soldiers.
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