challenging behaviour

The government has failed to meet its commitment to ensure that people with a learning disability are supported to return to their communities from units like Winterbourne View.

Mencap has launched a campaign, called Hear My Voice, that seeks to unite the voices of people with learning disabilities, their families, carers, campaigners and others to ensure the next Government addresses the key issues facing people with a learning disability and their families.

Progress in moving people with learning disabilities out of Winterbourne View-style assessment and treatment units remains slow, according to new NHS figures.

The majority of people with learning disabilities living in hospital-style institutions are regularly given anti-psychotic drugs and have been subject to an incident of assault, restraint, seclusion or self-harm, according to newly-revealed figures.

Redstart Arts, a group that includes people with learning disabilities, has developed a new set of sculptures that will fill the Deptford skyline throughout the summer.

The government has launched new guidance that aims to reduce the use of restraint and restrictive interventions in health and adult care settings.

Learning disability charities have called for an urgent review of all decisions to keep people placed in assessment and treatment units rather than in the community.

The Supreme Court’s decision in 2 cases involving people with learning disabilities has been welcomed by charities for clarifying how to determine whether care arrangements for a person who lacks capacity to decide where to live amount to a ‘deprivation of liberty’.

Only a tenth of the 2,577 people with learning disabilities in in-patient hospital settings have a date set for their transfer back into the community, NHS figures have revealed.

Sam Sly considers two contrasting stories of young people with learning disabilities in institutions with a label of challenging behaviour.

The heads of two learning disability charities have called for urgent change in the Mental Health Act regime after a report highlighted evidence of restraint and seclusion being used in learning disability units.

A theatre show aimed at teenagers with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) is to go on a nationwide tour in the coming months.

In this guest blog, Hannah Postgate gives an insight into her life as a mum of a daughter with complex learning disabilities and autism.