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Arsenal and England footballer Jack Wilshere has initiated a sporting challenge – ‘Uppies for Autism’ – to raise awareness of autism and funds for The Autism Trust.
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The government’s decision to scrap the Independent Living Fund (ILF) will be a “retrogressive step” in terms of helping people with disabilities to live independently, according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
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About 150 people with learning disabilities from across the country came together recently in Croydon at a specially-organised event to mark Black History Month.
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This is a toolkit created for Disabled Peoples User Led Organisations (DPULOs), other small organisations and charities. It aims to provide guidance to help organisations find and use data with confidence to support their work by, for…
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Labour has called on Conservative welfare minister Lord Freud to resign after allegedly saying that some people with disabilities were not worth paying the minimum wage to.
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The results of a survey carried out by Mencap.
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Since 2009, the Care Quality Commission has had a duty to monitor the use of the safeguards in all care homes and hospitals in England, and also to provide advice and information on using them.The Commission checks on the use of the…
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Barbara Bowness - 1000 Lives Improvement (Public Health Wales, 2014) This improvement guide has been produced to enable healthcare organisations and their teams to successfully implement a series of interventions to improve the safety and…
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Treat Me Right! started out providing learning disability training for healthcare staff in an NHS Trust, but has since snowballed, driven forward in part by a man with Down’s syndrome. Editor Dan Parton reports: When John Keavney, who has…
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A new campaign has launched in Scotland that aims to help people understand the needs of individuals who use augmentative and alternative communications (AAC) in place of speech.
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