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The RIX Big Ideas Course: rethinking learning for people with learning…
The RIX Big Ideas course brings together social work students and people with lived experience of learning…
Welfare benefits for people with ADHD need an emergency handbrake, says Tony…
The Government should apply an emergency handbrake to slow the rise in welfare cash-benefit claimants, focusing on…
Autism, motherhood and detention under the Mental Health Act
The Mental Health Act 2025 updates the laws governing the detention and compulsory treatment of individuals with…
Mental Health Act: disabled campaigners call for greater co-production
Disabled campaigners are calling on the Government to do more to co-produce mental health reforms as part of the…
Shared Lives: social care’s best kept secret
The Shared Lives scheme offers a unique solution to the social care crisis, matching people with learning…
Covid-19 Inquiry calls for universal advance care planning and DNACPR form
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry discovered that individuals with a learning disability were deprived of essential support…
PIP reform: Timms Review launches call for evidence
The Timms Review has issued a call for evidence regarding the future of Personal Independence Payments (PIP),…
New exhibition highlights the impact of inappropriate mental health detentions
A new exhibition will be held this week, highlighting the personal stories of people with a learning disability and…
People with learning disabilities are being banned from seeing their families
An ITV News investigation has found a growing trend of punitive use of contact orders against families of people…
Minimum Income Guarantee changes: disabled adults to get £400 boost
The Government has announced that the Minimum Income Guarantee for working-age disabled adults accessing social…
Transforming Care: why has it failed to transform?
It is more than 10 years since the Transforming Care agenda was launched by the government. But, with targets…
LeDeR researchers apologise as republished report shows increased number of…
The latest report from LeDeR (Learning from Lives and Deaths – People with a learning disability and autistic…