January 2016

The past 12 months saw the care of people with learning disabilities again hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. Editor Dan Parton looks back.
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A new health toolkit, written and developed by a team of nurses that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities on a day-to-day basis has been launched.
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What happens when you turn care into a commodity, asks Alex McClimens.
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Thousands of people with learning disabilities want to spend more time outside their homes but 1 in 3 fear being bullied if they do, according to new Mencap data.
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A new test for Down’s syndrome has been recommended for women on the NHS and will reduce the need for tests that carry a miscarriage risk.
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After a review by the House of Lords found a proposed cut of £30 a week to Employment and Support Allowance will directly contradict the Government’s desire to get more disabled people into work, hundreds of people with disabilities have…
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New mothers with learning disabilities have benefitted from a pilot programme that helped them learn to care for and interact with their babies, an evaluation has found.
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The board of under-fire Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust have said there will be no resignations in the wake of a critical report which found that it failed to investigate hundreds of deaths over a 4-year period.
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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust will receive expert support to improve the way it investigates and reports deaths at the trust, particularly among people with a learning disability and/or those who are experiencing mental illness,…
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'Mate' crime affects 80% of people with autism in Merseyside according to a survey conducted by charity Autism Together.
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