May 2019

Young people with learning disabilities are often without paid employment. Darren Devine considers whether supported internship schemes are the answer, or whether they fail to deliver what they promise.
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Ciara Lawrence, Campaigns Support Officer for Mencap, writes about her horror at seeing the abuse of people with learning disabilities in care homes - and calls on the government to take action. 
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Should autistic people avoid or embrace autistic obsessions? Or could we be medicalising a perfectly healthy behaviour and comes from a place of misunderstanding.
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Families have launched a legal campaign to end the "national scandal" of people with autism and learning disabilities from being detained under the Mental Health Act.
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19 reviews found that the term ‘learning disabilities’ or ‘Down’s syndrome’ was given as the reason for ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders.
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The CQC is calling for an independent review of every person who is being held in segregation in mental health wards for children and young people and wards for people with a learning disability or autism.
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Granting long-stay hospitals responsibility for care commissioning will create serious conflicts of interest - and may undermine people's right.
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Twice a week in Hastings, a group of friends, who all have a learning disability, drink a few pints and catch up at the local pub - socialising just like everybody else.
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Kerry Ann has Trisomy X chromosome syndrome and shares her story with the world: educating, speaking, and answering questions about this unique and invisible syndrome, which few people understand. 
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Disability charity United Response launches their Am I Your Problem? campaign which aims to challenge the indifference, hidden discrimination, and sometimes outright hostility faced by people with learning disabilities and autistics. 
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