September 2016

Tim Smart, the interim chair of troubled Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, has resigned with immediate effect, citing “personal reasons”.
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In this guest blog, professional artist Andy Kee talks about his experience as an artist with learning disabilities and his partnership with service provider Certitude to get more people into art and to visit galleries.
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People living with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should stop being stigmatised as underachievers, following Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles’ disclosure that she has the condition, the head of an ADHD…
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Local authorities have been invited to apply for share of the government’s £25 million housing and technology fund for people with learning disabilities.
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The number of people in inpatient psychiatric or learning disability beds fell between 2014 and 2016, according to an NHS survey.
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The government’s plans to cap Housing Benefit rates for the supported housing sector risk creating a housing crisis for people with learning disabilities, a charity has warned.
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The vast majority of local authorities are failing to provide sufficient detail on available provision for children and young people with special needs or a disability (SEND), an audit of all Local Offers in England has found.
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Inspired by the Rio Olympics and Paralympics, some 300 people with learning disabilities competed at a sporting festival organised by a service provider recently.
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Bethany Firth won her second gold medal at the Rio Paralympics by winning the S14 200m freestyle event, with fellow Briton Jessica-Jane Applegate taking silver.
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Great Britain and Ireland swimmer Bethany Firth has won the gold medal in the S14 100m backstroke event at the Rio Paralympics in a new world record time.
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