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When Martin Boniface’s son Harry, with severe learning disabilities, was asked to leave a theatre for making too much noise he put together a plan for how support teams should react to challenging behaviours in public. Here he tells Darren…
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Today's judgement ruled that the national minimum wage does not apply to sleep-in shifts unless the worker is awake for the purpose of working, avoiding bankruptcy.
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TouchBase Pears represents "a new way" of delivering social care services, focusing on arts and wellbeing.
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A new anxiety app for autistic adults has been made available this week.
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Children with special educational needs account for almost half of all exclusions in schools.
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The event at Doncaster's Keepmoat Stadium on Saturday (30 June) is open to athletes and ‘Give it a Go’ amateurs alike.
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A £400 million bill for back pay is due from the sector later this year.
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The proposed social insurance tax would pay for adult recipients of social care "of all ages", not purely older people.
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Learning disabilities diagnosed in childhood are associated with mental health problems in adulthood, Finnish research has found.
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The event, organised by Mencap, is being run as part of the organisation's Treat Me Well campaign for Learning Disability Week, which runs from June 18 to 24.
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