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Care England, in partnership with PLMR, has published The Power of Care: the system behind our society, a new report exploring the role of adult social care in national life.
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Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust are now providing sensory activity bags for patients with learning disabilities and autistic people who need to attend the A&E to help reduce anxiety.
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A new report from leading autism charities in the UK sets out the case for systemic reform of the systems that diagnose and support autistic people.
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The Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) has launched a new inquiry into disabled people's access to flexible working, examining associated schemes, such as Access to Work.
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The Government should apply an emergency handbrake to slow the rise in welfare cash-benefit claimants, focusing on conditions such as anxiety, depression and ADHD, according to a new report.
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New research from Ambitious About Autism reveals that one third of parents and carers report that their experience of the autism assessment and diagnosis process has been negative.
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There has been a 3.5% drop in Local Authority fee rate uplifts across all learning disability and autism services, according to the Association for Real Change (ARC England).
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Disabled campaigners are calling on the Government to do more to co-produce mental health reforms as part of the new Mental Health Act implementation plan.
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Speech and Language UK says that over 1.3 million children and young people with Developmental Language Disorder are missing from the Government's Schools White Paper.
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NHS England has published minimum standards for keyworking services for autistic children and young people and children and young people with a learning disability.
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