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Stop ‘sectioning’ people with a learning disability or autism when…
There are currently two thousand people with autism or a learning disability detained in secure inpatient settings,…
Mendip House: when charities are at the centre of the abuse scandals
Darren Devine explores questions facing the charity care sector following abuse at the Mendip House home run by the…
Community living: are they just institutions in another guise?
Darren Devine discusses how moving people from hospitals to community living settings can be antithetical to the…
The possibility of supported living: leaving the family home
The question of whether to have your learning disabled child living at home or move them into supported living is…
Unearthing talent
In addition to gardening and computing, staff at Rhyme House – a service run by the Regard Group - also support…
Experts by experience programme shaping support work at Eden Futures
?Autistic support workers will be instrumental to future success at the support and housing solutions firm, Eden…
Adapted housing – washing machines that ‘do your ironing’
The independence of people with certain learning disabilities could be improved through innovations in Scotland.
Investigation exposes ‘trade in people’
An effective 'trade in people’ with learning disabilities and/or autism at Assessment and Treatment Units has been…
housing
Increasing numbers of people with learning disabilities live independently, athough the majority still live with…
Breaking the ATU impasse following Winterbourne View
Six years on from the Winterbourne View scandal, the number of people with learning disabilities living in NHS…
Housing solutions – accommodating common sense
People with learning disabilities on long housing waiting lists stand to benefit from a change in approach.
Independence Day For Jon And Sharon Thanks To Highdown
Two friends from Cornwall are celebrating leaving residential care to live in the community