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Care regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has released another 10 inspection reports into learning disability residential facilities and found serious concerns at 3 locations.
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The contents of tomorrow's Queen's Speech will tell us whetheror not social care is to get the urgent reform it needs. The fearis that it will not. I don't usually blog on the same subject 2weeks in a row, but I'm making an exception in…
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Shops, restaurants and leisure facilities should do more to become autism-friendly, according to the results of an online poll.
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The annual Learning Disability Today Conference and Exhibition will take place on November 29 at a new venue - the Olympia Conference Centre in London. Now in its 12th year, the Learning Disability Today Conference and Exhibition will…
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Advocacy group York People First has launched an accreditation for organisations to promote equal opportunities and challenge perceptions of what people with learning disabilities can and can’t do.
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The long-awaited and much-needed reform of adult social carewill be delayed, according to reports. Here we go again. A reportin the Financial Times on Monday said thatthe Queen's Speech on May 9 will emphasise the importance of socialcare…
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Players from across the country celebrated the success of the biggest-ever Premier League Down’s Syndrome Football Festival at The Albion Foundation in West Bromwich recently.
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The nursing workforce will have to adapt in order to provide the required level of expert care to the rising number of people with learning disabilities, a report has concluded.
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An NHS trust that provides learning disability services across Rotherham, Doncaster and North Lincolnshire has developed a training package for services users to help them recognise and report different types of abuse.
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A former inspector at care regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has been arrested over allegations that care home managers were being offered favourable inspection reports in return for cash payments.
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