January 2024

An investigation by The Independent and Sky News has uncovered around 20,000 reports of sexual incidents at NHS mental health trusts in the last five years.
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The learning disability charity Mencap is urging the government to act on the recommendations set out in a report by MPs which called for the draft Mental Health Bill to be strengthened.
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A High Court judge has ordered Bury Council to provide additional support to a seven-year-old girl who is disabled and requires specialist assistance for her complex needs.
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An international report on employment and the workforce has found that employees who are disabled are less happy across the board than non-disabled employees.
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The short breaks innovation programme, which provides a range of activities for children with SEND is to be extended to a further seven local authorities.
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Down's syndrome will now be included in the school census as a separate category in an effort to understand how and where children with Down’s syndrome are being educated. 
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Autistic man Nicholas Thornton lost the ability to walk and speak after spending over a decade detained in unsuitable care settings.
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Campaigners are dismayed by the sentences given to four former members of staff who abused people with learning disabilities at Whorlton Hall in 2019.
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Despite a £7.5bn funding boost for the adult social care sector in 2022, there has been no “tangible change” or “any significant progress towards ‘fixing adult social care’,” according to the Chief Executive of Care England.
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Royal Mencap Society has announced the appointment of Jon Sparkes OBE as its new Chief Executive, to take effect in June this year.
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