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The line-up for December’s Autism Friendly Films has been announced and includes family blockbusters The Penguins of Madagascar and Paddington.
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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.
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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…
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Commissioned by NHS England, this review by Sir Stephen Bubb explores how a new national framework of support might be delivered locally, in order to allow the growth of community provision required to move people out of inappropriate…
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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…
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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…
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A letter from the NHS Chief Executive and the Director General of Social Care highlighting action to be taken by NHS bodies and local authorities in the wake of the interim report of the Winterbourne View Hospital review.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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