November 2015

Triodos Corporate Finance has raised £2 million of investment for learning disability charity Thera Trust. The money will be used in part to acquire and adapt properties for people with a learning disability and complex needs.
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In this guest blog, Anna Galliford from FitzRoy argues that care work should have a higher social status if talented professionals are not going to continue to be lost to the sector.
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The High Court has ruled that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith MP, unlawfully discriminated against disabled people by failing to exempt their unpaid full-time carers from the benefit cap.
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The lack of investment in social care in Chancellor George Osborne’s Spending Review has been branded “a disgrace” by the chief executive of the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG).
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A young man from South Wales with complex needs who can only communicate through eye contact, movement and the occasional vocalisation has fulfilled a lifelong goal of going surfing.
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A new free book that focuses on future planning for people with a learning disability and their families has been published.
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Changing Places, the campaign for fully accessible toilets to be installed in public places, has launched a new map showing the location of all Changing Places toilets in the UK for the 250,000 people nationwide who need these facilities,…
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Long waiting times for a diagnosis of autism – up to 9 years – are pushing families into crisis and the government needs to take urgent action to address this, the National Autistic Society (NAS) has said.
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Learning disability charity Mencap has launched its Step Up programme, which aims to support young people with a learning disability or communication difficulty who have offended or are at risk of offending into employment.
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Special Olympian Kiera Byland has launched a new social enterprise alongside charity the Together Trust aimed at delivering a course of educational sessions to schools with students who have learning difficulties and disabilities.
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