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Short-term planning is endemic in social care for adults with learning disabilities and this is costing local authorities and the people themselves dear, a report has found.
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Dedicated staff from learning disability services and charities have been recognised for their work in the Queen’s New Year Honours List.
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A filmmaker with learning disabilities has received the uScreen Best Film Award 2013 for his short film about the inspiration his big screen hero, James Bond, has had on his life.
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Christmas came early for two residents of a European Care Group home when they recently received a priceless gift from their favourite singing star.
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The principal investigator for the Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities (CIPOLD) has criticised the government for the pace of its response to the report’s findings.
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The government has launched its disability and health employment strategy, but a consortium of charities says that it needs to go further to address the issues that people with disabilities face.
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Residents living at a learning disability service in Wales are enjoying fresh eggs and home-grown vegetables thanks to a farming project.
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An autism campaigner has branded the autism diagnosis process “not fit for purpose” after a survey revealed that more than half of families have to wait five years or more for a diagnosis for their child.
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The government has admitted that although progress has been made in the past year towards achieving the goals of improving learning disability hospital services, a great deal more needs to be done.
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Six in 10 people with learning disabilities who are inpatients in hospital treatment centres have lived there for more than a year and, of those, more than a quarter have been resident for more than 5 years, new figures have found.
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