July 2024

At the age of just 18, Connor Sparrowhawk drowned in a bathtub while under NHS care. Nearly 11 years later, his story has been transformed into a play which highlights how our broken care system is failing people with learning disabilities…
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Nearly half of disabled people in the UK feel they aren’t important to political parties, with many feeling they are being forgotten by politicians, according to a new survey by Sense.
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Many autistic women and women with learning disabilities are currently going through menopause. Despite this, a lack of knowledge and awareness of the impact of menopause means too many women are missing out on support.
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Learning Disability Wales has published an Easy Read guide to voting in the General Election on 4th July 2024.
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For this year’s Co-production Week 2024 (1 – 5 July 2024), Disability Rights UK have published new resources which explain how organisations can ‘do’ co-production.
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