LDT Editor 1969 posts 0 comments

A charity is calling on the government and social care sector to do more to help people with learning disabilities build connections in their communities, after research found that more than half of the public don’t know anyone with…
Read More...

Shadow Care and Older People Minister Liz Kendall has called for reform of the social care system to give people with learning disabilities and their families greater power over the support and services they use.
Read More...

Letter from Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb about gathering information on good practice to improve the quality of services for people with learning disabilities and their families.
Read More...

The final report of the government's review of the events at Winterbourne Hospital.
Read More...

The Department of Health's final report into the events at Winterbourne View hospital, and a programme of action to transform services.
Read More...

BBC Panorama programme on 31 May 2011 featured systemic abuse of patients within Winterbourne View, an independent hospital run by Castlebeck Care (Teesdale) Ltd. The Department has issued a dear colleague letter to the NHS and local…
Read More...

A Charter of Rights should be introduced to protect people with learning disabilities, while all Winterbourne View-style institutions should be closed, a report has said.
Read More...

The Learning Disability Alliance (LDA) England has launched, with a plan to hold the government to account and raise awareness of the issues that impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities.
Read More...

At any one time around 15,000 people in England have learning disabilities or autism and behaviour that challenges. Most of these people are supported by their family carers or live independently in the community, often with complex…
Read More...

After the transmission of the BBC Panorama Undercover Care: the Abuse Exposed in May 2011, which showed unmanaged Winterbourne View Hospital staff mistreating and assaulting adults with learning disabilities and autism, South…
Read More...