July 2016

The Langford Tigers football team celebrated their top-three finish at the Sussex Disability Football League annual presentation recently.
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The families of two children with severe learning disabilities have been successful in a judicial review into local authority cuts to short breaks services, which they said would leave their children socially isolated.
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The need for autism-specific respite care has become so critical that social workers have been 'begging' for help to find emergency placements for people with autism in crisis, according to a charity.
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Local Safeguarding Children's Boards (LSCBs) have an inconsistent approach to safeguarding disabled children at Board level across England and overall have not made sufficient progress against Ofsted’s 2012 recommendations for improvement,…
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Families can encounter significant barriers to keeping in touch with children who have learning disabilities and live in residential placements – and feel shut out if they see their child’s health and/or behaviour deteriorating, according…
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The scale of the funding challenge in health is colossal and while spending on health is increasing, the service is under unprecedented strain and struggling to keep pace with relentlessly rising demand, and this is also impacting on social…
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Eye health experts have called for a national scheme of longer, tailored sight tests for people with learning disabilities who are more likely to suffer problems or need glasses.
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Student with a range of disabilities from specialist schools in Greater Manchester and Cheshire came together to perform for their peers at a music festival at The Lowry’s Quays Theatre recently.
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ADASS’ annual survey of local authority social care funding painted a grim picture for the sector and, they say, without a significant injection of funding from central government, things will continue to worsen in the future. Editor Dan…
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In this guest blog, family carer Dave Barker talks about the recent EU Referendum, and explaining the complexities of it to his son before they voted.
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