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People with learning disabilities are worried about the levels of funding for care, what is going to happen to their benefits and how their support will be affected as a result, a new report has revealed.
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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced learning disability residential services provider Castlebeck – which ran the former Winterbourne View hospital – will no longer sponsor RCN Publishing’s 2013 Learning Disability Nursing…
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The Social Care Association (SCA) and its sister organisation the Social Care Association (Education) have announced they are to close because they do not have the funds to continue.
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A lack of adequate transport solutions is one of the main barriers to people with learning disabilities accessing the same opportunities as anybody else, a report has found.
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Using pictures rather than letters in sight tests for people with learning disabilities could help give more accurate assessments of their eyesight, research has found.
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Renewed calls have been made for the Government to ensure real change is made to the learning disability residential sector, after a new Panorama investigation made further allegations of abuse in residential facilities.
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Care services minister Norman Lamb has reiterated that the Government plans to improve quality of care for people with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges improves, ahead of a broadcast tonight that will reveal new safety…
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A Nottinghamshire man with Down’s syndrome has been elected to his local parish council, which is believed to be a first in the UK.
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Six of the 11 people who admitted 38 charges of abuse at the former Winterbourne View private hospital have been jailed. The remaining 5 have received suspended sentences.
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Sunnyside House’s My LIFE training programme is helping residents with learning disabilities to learn the skills they need to not just live an independent life but thrive in their own home. Editor Dan Parton reports.
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