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The Autism Friendly Libraries initiative has been launched, which aims to provide training and support to library staff and make them more autism-friendly to people with autism.
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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has accepted full responsibility for the death of Connor Sparrowhawk and has admitted that it was negligent and violated Connor’s and his family’s human rights.
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The odds of people with disabilities who have been unemployed for more than a year returning to work diminish at twice the rate of non-disabled people, a report has found.
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The annual Apulstock music festival for people with learning disabilities has declared 2016 the ‘year of the butterfly’, ahead of the event in July.
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Life skills and safety tips were on the curriculum at a series of workshops run for adults with learning disabilities.
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Mainstream schools are struggling to support the 1.1 million pupils with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND), with delays to assessments, insufficient budgets and cuts to local authorities all cited as major factors.
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More than 2,500 people with a learning disability and/or autism were receiving inpatient care in England at the end of February – and nearly a third of those had been resident for 5 years or more, according to new statistics.
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Dame Judi Dench is one of the expert judges who will reveal the winners of the international ‘My Perspective’ competition at a prestigious ceremony in London later this month.
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New guidance has been launched to support prescribing healthcare professionals to review inappropriate prescriptions for people under their care who have a learning disability and/or autism.
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The families of the people who were abused at the former Winterbourne View hospital have signed an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron expressing their anger at the “painfully slow” rate of change towards improving care for people…
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