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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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