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Author

Dan Parton 3 posts 0 comments

Dan Parton is an experienced journalist, having written about pretty much everything and anything during the past 20 years - from movies to trucks to tech. He is former editor of Learning Disability Today.

Features

Change in the air?

Dan Parton Apr 9, 2014

Recent figures show that 60% of people with learning disabilities who are inpatients in hospital settings have been there for more than a year, despite promises of reform after the Winterbourne View. So, has anything really changed for the…
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Features

Getting equal

Dan Parton Jan 7, 2014

People with learning disabilities die on average 16 years earlier than their non-disabled peers, but to tackle this inequality will require changes in healthcare and it has to be led by the government. Editor Dan Parton reports.
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Features

Budget cuts biting hard

Dan Parton Apr 4, 2012

If the Learning Disability Coalition's (LDC) new report is to be believed, nearly half of people with learning disabilities who receive social care services have had their support cut or charges for it increased in the past year. Proof, for…
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