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A test has been launched in Wales that aims to ensure people with learning disabilities in supported living enjoy the same tenancy rights, responsibilities, choice and control in their homes as any other tenants.
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Children with special educational needs (SEN) are 9 times more likely to be permanently excluded from school than the general pupil population, an official report has found.
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Chancellor George Osborne’s budget has been criticised by disability charities and service users for offering little to people with disabilities.
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Victims of disability hate crime are being let down by the criminal justice system, and progress to improve their experience of reporting offences has been too slow, an independent report has found.
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A cross-party group of MPs and peers has warned that the Government has not fully thought through its social care reforms and that without greater integration with health and housing, and a focus on prevention and early intervention, the…
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The Government has said that disabled children should be exempt from controversial new housing benefit size criteria rules – the “bedroom tax” – but learning disability charity Mencap has called for this to be extended to adults as well.
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People with learning disabilities die 16 years sooner on average than the general population and more than a third of these deaths are down to people not getting the right healthcare, official research has concluded.
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A group of people with learning disabilities at a Doncaster day service wrote and recorded their own song for Red Nose Day recently.
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There is no national organisation for self-advocacy in England, but there should be, says Gary Bourlet
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Investment to support people with a learning disability into paid employment is declining and many commissioners do not have access to the data they need on services they commission, according to new research.
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