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The family of a man are calling for a previous case of alleged abuse at the former Winterbourne View residential hospital to be re-investigated.
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A rural care community in Cornwall has come up with a novel way to support one of its residents who has autism – by building him a new home from a former chicken shed.
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English Heritage is to launch an online resource later this year which will map changing attitudes to disability over the past 1,000 years through historic buildings.
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An initiative by service provider Choice Support to remove waking night staff from community-based supported living services for people with learning disabilities has saved a local authority £250,000, a report has found.
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For many people with disabilities and/or families with disabled children, these are hard times. And this is set to get worse when universal credit is introduced, according to a new report. These concerns cannot be ignored by Government.
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The sentencing of 11 former employees of the Winterbourne View hospital in Bristol once again brought the worst of learning disability care into the national consciousness.
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So what did Panorama’s follow-up to its Winterbourne View documentary tell us? Not much that we didn’t already know: that little has altered in learning disability institutions in the 18 months since the original broadcast – and that the…
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The sentencing of 11 people found guilty of abuse at Winterbourne View last week was welcome, but it is clear that much more needs to be done to ensure a similar scandal does not happen again.
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Up to half a million disabled people and their families will be worse off under universal credit if current plans go ahead, a report has found.
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Families with disabled children are at breaking point due to a chronic shortage of support and services in their local area, charities, parenting groups and disability campaigners have warned.
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