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Events this summer have posed some fundamental questions about learning disability services but, as yet, there have been few concrete answers.
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There's been plenty of bad news out there in the learning disability sector, but Dan Parton says it's important to remember the range of positive projects constantly underway.
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The Panorama programme on Winterbourne View was broadcast nearly 2 months ago now. Amid much outcry, investigations have begun, with the talk of such things never being allowed to happen again. But since then, on the ground, has anything…
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The needs of prisoners with learning disabilitiesmay be better met with professional assessment and treatment in a specialist facility that provides services for patients with complex difficulties, including autism or Asperger’s syndrome,…
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Ever since the Welfare Reform Bill was announced in February people have been concerned that those living in residential care will lose their independence if, as the government plans, the mobility component of disability living allowance…
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Care home provider Southern Cross says that it is transferring control of its 750 care homes to others and would be wound up.
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Disability Alliance, a coalition of some 250 disability charities and organisations, and law firm Unity Law have issued a 'letter of claim' to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over cuts to benefits.
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A number of charities have expressed deep concerns following the catalogue of alleged abuse at a residential hospital for people with learning disabilities, Winterbourne View, shown on BBC’s Panorama programme last night.
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