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71% of autistic adults in England aren't getting the support they need. This could mean up to 327,000 autistic adults aren’t getting help to do things other people take for granted, like socialising, managing money, or getting out and about.

Chancellor Sajid Javid's Spending Review promised to inject £1 billion into social care. Billy Davis, Hft’s Public Affairs and Policy Manager, tells LDT why the sector needs to "save itself". 

Chancellor Sajid Javid's Spending Review promises to inject £1 billion into social care.

The parents of a pupil living with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and sensory processing difficulties have successfully won a case against their child’s independent prep school, Ashdown House, for an unlawful discriminatory exclusion.

A group of Loughborough University academics have been awarded funding to examine how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as the Amazon Echo, help people with disabilities live independently and explore how they may shape the future of social care.

In 2016, the UK government launched a groundbreaking drive to reduce the use of psychotropic drugs for people with autism and learning disabilities. But recent figures show that while prescribing rates for antipsychotics have fallen since the campaign’s launch, antidepressants, hypnotics, and stimulants have all risen.

Notting Hill Carnival was designed to unify the community and serve as a vehicle for social inclusion, which makes it a perfect medium for other excluded, misunderstood or underrepresented groups to carry the same message across, writes Harrow Mencap CEO Deven Pillay.

An increasing number of children with a learning disability or autism are living in inpatient units. 

Neratov is a village in the Czech Republic run by people with learning disabilities, for people with learning disabilities. In this article, Stephanie Ross discusses how the village rebukes its communist history of exclusion and discrimination.