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People with learning disabilities still often have difficulties accessing primary healthcare services, but, as two examples from Yorkshire show, there are ways to overcome this. Editor Dan Parton reports.
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The action taken to improve support for people with mental ill health or learning disabilities in the criminal justice system in the past 5 years since the Bradley Report needs to be maintained for another 5 to put the vision into practice…
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BBC Three’s documentary Growing Up Down’s, broadcast this week, has been praised for highlighting what real life is like for young people with Down’s syndrome – and we need to see more programmes like this.
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Another case of alleged abuse in a learning disability residential care home highlights the importance of sector reform if such abuse is to be prevented in the future.
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A man with learning disabilities addressed a Parliamentary group recently to talk about the importance of personalised community support – but MPs need to listen more regularly to such voices.
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The Appeal Court’s decision last week to rule that the work capability assessment (WCA) for employment and support allowance (ESA) disadvantages people with mental ill health, learning disabilities and autism was met with a hearty ‘told you…
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Reform is coming for the health and social care sectors whether we like it or not. Doing nothing is not an option. These were some of the main themes to emerge from the recent National Children and Adult Services (NCAS) Conference – for the…
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For the first time in a long time, many people will have woken up to a frost this week - and will have turned the central heating on without a second thought. But for some people with learning disabilities, that isn't an option. In fact,…
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In the summer, people with learning disabilities and the carers and professionals who live and work with them could have been forgiven for wondering if anything positive ever happens in the sector. The news agenda was dominated by the…
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Last Friday, one of the most excluded groups in society – people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) – took centre stage at an event at City Hall in London.
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