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Health and social care regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has released a further 19 inspection reports on learning disability residential services, and found only 4 compliant with both essential standards it investigated.
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Four more staff members from the former Winterbourne View residential hospital have admitted abuse charges. Graham Doyle admitted 7 charges, Sookalingum Appoo admitted 3, and Danny Brake and Jason Gardiner admitted 2 at Bristol Crown Court.…
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A national art competition celebrating the creativity of people with an autistic spectrum condition (ASC) has been launched at a Parliamentary reception.
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Learning disability charity Mencap has welcomed the publication of the Government's hate crime action plan. 'Challenge it, Report it, Stop it' outlines the Government's plan to combat hate crime, by working with local agencies, voluntary…
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The Down's Syndrome Association (DSA) has launched a new workprogramme, WorkFit, to coincide with Down's Syndrome Awareness Week.
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The National Autistic Society (NAS) has called for autism training to be provided as standard in police training, in the wake of a High Court ruling that the Metropolitan Police breached a young person with severe autism’s human rights…
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Professor Jim Mansell, who spent more than 40 years helping to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities, has died after a long illness.
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The Welfare Reform Bill has received royal assent and will become law, meaning that in 2013 most means-tested benefits will be merged into one universal credit, and disability living allowance will be replaced by the personal independence…
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The Government has announced that disability employment services will be re-focused on disabled people themselves, rather than institutions, with the aim of enabling them to access mainstream jobs the same as everyone else.
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Kyle Coleman, who is mute and has autism, has recorded an album of his favourite songs in a pitch-perfect voice. Coleman, from Gwithian, Cornwall, was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 and has only ever been able to say a few words.…
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