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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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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 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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More than 6,000 schoolchildren with autism and sensory differences were able to enjoy special autism-friendly film screenings at 66 cinemas across the country thanks to a partnership between charities and a support provider.
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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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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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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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With the Care Quality Commission (CQC) nearing the end of its inspection programme of residential units for people with learning disabilities, and the trial of those accused of abuse at Winterbourne View coming up, are we getting closer to…
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Care regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has released 36 more reports into standards at learning disability residential care facilities and found only 7 to be fully compliant with the 2 standards it was investigating.
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Assistive technologies in smart phones and tablets such as text-to-speech should be considered for funding support for students with special educational needs (SEN), according to industry experts.
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