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Care industry regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched a new scheme, Acting Together, which enables service users to advise on and contribute to its work.
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Care services improvement charity the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has launched new elearning resources and a briefing on the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).  
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Researchers have discovered that siblings of people with autism show a similar pattern of brain activity to that seen in people with autism when looking at emotional facial expressions.
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Residential care services provider Castlebeck failed to comply with 10 essential standards at its Winterbourne View care home in Bristol - subject of a recent Panorama expose - according to a report by regulator the Care Quality Commission…
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The Commission on Funding of Care and Support has delivered its final report, outlining a vision for social care that includes limits to the amounts people will pay towards residential care, retains universal benefits and introduces…
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The finalists of a national art competition, which showcases the creativity of young people with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), have been announced. The competition, Create! Art for Autism, was open to all young people aged 11-25 with…
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Leading individuals and organisations in the learning disability field have called on Prime Minister David Cameron to instigate action in response to the abuse of people with learning disabilities in Winterbourne View.
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Mencap has today announced the launch of ‘Stand by me’ – a three-year campaign aimed at tackling disability hate crime – after claiming that the police’s current plans to tackle disability hate crime are failing, leaving vulnerable people…
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Learning disability organisations have reacted angrily to Conservative MP Philip Davies’ claim that people with learning disabilities should offer to work for less than minimum wage in order to compete with non-disabled people in the job…
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The number of women in prison could be substantially reduced if specialist facilities for women with learning disabilities and complex needs and those with personality disorders or a forensic history were provided, a leading psychiatrist…
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