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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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A damning inspection report by the Care Quality Commission has found an assessment and treatment service that met none of its core standards. So post-Winterbourne View, has anything really changed for people with learning disabilities?
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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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Several schemes that seek to help people with learning disabilities into employment have been celebrating their success recently. But more is needed to raise the percentage of adults with learning disabilities in employment.
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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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This week’s Panorama documentary showed that the Government’s Work Programme, designed to get the long-term unemployed into work, often doesn’t provide the support people with disabilities need to help them find a job.
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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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