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The CQC is calling for an independent review of every person who is being held in segregation in mental health wards for children and young people and wards for people with a learning disability or autism.
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Granting long-stay hospitals responsibility for care commissioning will create serious conflicts of interest - and may undermine people's right.
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Disability charity United Response launches their Am I Your Problem? campaign which aims to challenge the indifference, hidden discrimination, and sometimes outright hostility faced by people with learning disabilities and autistics. 
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Cross-sector concerns have repeatedly been raised about the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill since proposals were introduced last summer.
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Figures produced by the Scottish Children’s Services Coalition have highlighted dramatic increases in the number of autistic pupils being identified as needing additional support needs (ASN) in Scotland’s schools.
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Michael, who lives with schizophrenia and learning disabilities, is a resident at Exemplar Health Care’s Doncaster home for adults with complex needs, Quarryfields. Here, he tells LDT about a voluntary project he recently participated in.
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Ambitious about Autism's Youth Council have created a resource to help tackle loneliness amongst peers and make youth groups more accessible. 
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The governments says it will prevent care home managers from making deprivation of liberty judgements under the reformed Mental Capacity Act currently being debated in parliament.Concerns had been raised by the care sector itself that…
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Bev Holczman, a care worker in Wales, has discovered her own artistic talent through creating art with Angela Hurrell, a tenant at the care home in which she works. In this article, Bev highlights how art enriches Angela's life - and also…
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The National Autistic Society has released a new animated film to mark World Autism Awareness Week (1-7 April 2019), encouraging viewers to find out more about what life can be like for the 700,000 autistic people in the UK.  
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