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A specialist day and residential school for children and young people with autism in North Yorkshire has been saved from potential closure after it was acquired by specialist care and education provider Cambian Group.
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More alternatives to prison should be available for people with learning disabilities who have broken the law, according to a new report.
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Priory Group, a provider of behavioural care, has acquired Progress Care, a specialist education and care group based in Lancashire.
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The lowest UK unemployment rate for nearly 10 years merely ignores the on-going failure to address the fact that just 6% of people with a learning disability are in paid work, learning disability charity Mencap has claimed.
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The December 2015 edition of accessible magazine Easy News is now available and features coverage of the terrorist attacks in Paris and an overview of the last 20 years since the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act.
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Southern Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been criticised in a report into its failure to adequately investigate unexplained deaths.
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Disheartening figures in the 2015 Learning Disability Census and the Mazars report into Southern Health’s failure to investigate unexpected deaths makes me wonder if the changes needed to ensure people with learning disabilities have equal…
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Three thousand people with learning disabilities, autism and/or behaviour that challenges are in specialist inpatient facilities in England, with 72% receiving antipsychotic medication in the previous months, new figures have revealed.
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In this blog, Mandy Chalk, a team leader at MyLife’s new bungalows for people with learning disabilities who require intensive support in Hartlepool, details how the service is implementing a community-support approach.
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A woman with learning disabilities was surprised by staff at the residential home she lives in when they arranged the trip of a lifetime for her recently – a private flight in a twin-propeller aeroplane.
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