January 2016

A new approach to supporting people with learning disabilities has resulted in a 60% fall in behaviour that challenges, according to randomised control trials.
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Many learning disability services are maintaining or improving quality, according to regulator the Care Quality Commission, and it is hoped that this continued. Andrea Sutcliffe spoke to Simon Cramp in an exclusive interview.
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Recommendations for change have been made to improve the care of vulnerable people by the Mental Welfare Commission, following the case of a woman with autism who took her own life.
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The Court of Appeal has ruled that the spare room subsidy – or ‘bedroom tax’ – discriminated against a victim of domestic violence and the family of a teenager with disabilities.
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A new housing development has opened in Ormesby offering 12 specially designed one-bedroom apartments for individuals with learning disabilities.
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Planned changes to housing benefit could leave tens of thousands of the country’s most vulnerable people unable to afford rent on their homes, and forcing the closure of specialist housing schemes, the National Housing Federation has…
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Disability charities and peers have signed an open letter to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith warning that the government’s plan to cut Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) by £30 per week will “push sick and disabled people…
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With the turn of another year, it is time to look ahead to what might happen in the next 12 months, although I suspect that for many people with learning disabilities, they will do this with a sense of trepidation.
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The McArthur Glen Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet village is to host a series of autism-friendly shopping evenings, it has been announced.
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An autism expert is to create the UK’s first set of measures to guide health service providers in their support for adults with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) after being awarded a £250,000 grant.
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