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The Government will produce an interim report on the former Winterbourne View residential hospital and other services for people with learning disabilities in the summer, care services minister Paul Burstow has revealed.
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The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (FPLD) has published an updated framework to help identify and address the needs of people with learning disabilities from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.
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Parents will be given more powers to control the support that children with special educational needs (SEN) receive, the Government has said. The proposals put forward would see parents given their own "personal budgets" - currently the…
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Learning disability charity Mencap has given a lukewarm reaction to the Queen’s Speech to Parliament, and questioned the Government’s commitment to addressing the funding crisis in adult social care.
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Care services minister Paul Burstow has backed a charity’s campaign to improve eye health services for people with learning disabilities.
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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 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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Aspiring artists now have less than 2 weeks to submit their entries to this year's Create! Art for Autism competition.
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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 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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