June 2016

In this guest blog, Darren Parnell, a positive behavioural support consultant, discusses his work at MyLife Hartlepool’s service for people with learning disabilities. Darren also has an 18-year-old son with Asperger’s syndrome.
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A new group that aims to campaign for the rights of people with learning disabilities and ensure their voices are heard has been launched.
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Sussex Police have been issued with a series of recommendations for dealing with the restraint and detention of children and adults in police custody who are vulnerable and have a mental illness.
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A new virtual reality (VR) experience has been launched that demonstrates to the public what being in a shopping centre can feel like for an autistic person.
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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has accepted full responsibility for the death of Connor Sparrowhawk and has admitted that it was negligent and violated Connor’s and his family’s human rights.
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The Autism Friendly Libraries initiative has been launched, which aims to provide training and support to library staff and make them more autism-friendly to people with autism.
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The odds of people with disabilities who have been unemployed for more than a year returning to work diminish at twice the rate of non-disabled people, a report has found.
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The annual Apulstock music festival for people with learning disabilities has declared 2016 the ‘year of the butterfly’, ahead of the event in July.
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The fifth anniversary of the Panorama documentary that broke the Winterbourne View scandal was earlier this week. It served as a timely reminder that for people with learning disabilities stuck in assessment and treatment units, little has…
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More than 2,500 people with a learning disability and/or autism were receiving inpatient care in England at the end of February – and nearly a third of those had been resident for 5 years or more, according to new statistics.
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