disability hate crime

United Response staff are being shown how to advocate on behalf of the people they support.

Disabled people are over three times more likely to be the victims of violence but support is now being provided around responding to all hate crimes - including those committed online.

It has been the subject of endless protocols, campaigns and initiatives. Yet despite all these good intentions, children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, still, end up as the victims of bullying.

About a third of people with conditions such as autism, Asperger’s syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or mental ill health have been the victim of a crime in the past year, according to new figures.

The Anti-Bullying Alliance has launched new resources for school staff to help tackle the homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying of disabled young people and those with special educational needs.

'Mate' crime affects 80% of people with autism in Merseyside according to a survey conducted by charity Autism Together.

A series of crime prevention booklets – created by a man with learning disabilities – have been launched in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A group of young people with learning disabilities in Guildford has benefitted from a personal safety skills course delivered by two former Surrey police officers in partnership with charity the halow project.

The number of people with autism and Asperger's syndrome in Merseyside being subjected to mate crime is 'staggeringly high' according to a report from Wirral Autistic Society - and the most vulnerable age group is 16 to 25.

Last weekend saw the fourth anniversary of the broadcast of the BBC’s Panorama documentary uncovering abuse at Winterbourne View, the residential hospital for people with learning disabilities. Since then, have things really changed for people with learning disabilities who are placed in such institutions? Sadly, the answer is no.