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Judge orders schools to make reasonable adjustments for challenging behaviour
Statistics show that children with special educational needs account for almost half of all exclusions in schools.
Childhood learning disabilities linked to mental health problems
Learning disabilities diagnosed in childhood are associated with mental health problems in adulthood, Finnish…
Two in three care providers may stop delivering services
Scope is the biggest provider to have already started withdrawing delivery of all physical services.
‘Providers could be co-ops, owned by those they support’
"Hopes and solutions" for the sector have been outlined by the VODG (Voluntary Organisations Disability Group).
Choosing care among life’s ‘most stressful experiences’
52% of people surveyed by the Care Quality Commission cited choosing a care home in their top three most stressful…
Independent research to assess impact of sleep-in pay crisis
The Solve Sleep-Ins Alliance are looking to establish a true picture of how the sector will be affected by a…
We have opened the Valentine’s can of worms – have you?
The latest phase of the Supported Loving campaign reveals ingrained cultural barriers to enabling love and sex that…
9 in 10 family carers say local authorities can’t support them
"I find myself hoping that she passes away before me," one carer tells Sense, as charity publishes distressing…
Epilepsy medication impact ‘trans-generational’
Signs of autism and a greater propensity to seizures can now be traced trasn-generationally.
85 percent of disabled millennials are lonely
Scope research involved interviews with over 1,000 disabled people.
New evidence sheds light on dementia risk
People with learning disabilities are more likely to develop dementia and new evidence in The Lancet has shown why…
research
Research is a vital component in the advancement of treatments and therapies for people with learning disabilities.…