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The Department of Health has asked the Law Commission to extend its review of mental capacity and detention to consider the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) in their entirety.

 Phoebe Caldwell offers a fresh insight into autism spectrum disorders in The Anger Box.
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This book will be of interest to professionals, as well as appealing to parents with autistic children, those with a general interest in the subject and many individuals on the autism spectrum themselves. 
Shifting attention away from presentation and symptoms alone, Phoebe explores and attempts to understand the sensory issues experienced by those on the spectrum and their neurobiological roots in an effort to find new ways of alleviating the distress that can characterise this condition.

The Department for Education has launched a new guide aimed at explaining how the system that supports children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities works.

Children with special educational needs are twice as likely as their peers to endure persistent bullying, a new study has claimed.

Labour has called on the Government to commit to a two-year deadline to end the practice of placing vulnerable people with learning disabilities at assessment and treatment units (ATUs) – like the former Winterbourne View – for long periods of time.

Bill Mumford, head of the Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Partnership (JIP), has resigned from his role with immediate effect following a second safeguarding incident at MacIntyre.

Adults with Asperger’s syndrome are significantly more likely to experience suicidal thoughts than people from the general population, according to a clinical study.

A new version of the NSPCC’s successful campaign the 'Underwear Rule' has been launched to help parents teach children with a learning disability about sexual abuse.

Chessington World of Adventures Resort has partnered with The Changing Places Consortium to become the first theme park in England to install a Changing Places for customers with learning disabilities.

A South Yorkshire Learning Disability Health Action Team joined forces with a local street dancing crew to help deliver health advice to a group of young people as part of Learning Disability Week.