The long-awaited Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry marks a watershed moment for the health and social care system, in how it cares for the most vulnerable members of our society.

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This Learning Disability Week, we look at the current and long-standing barriers to improving care and support for people with a learning disability across healthcare, employment and support services?

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Date to be confirmed 2026! Description: Pain is often underdiagnosed and undertreated in people with learning disabilities and autistic people. This is because it can be difficult to identify due to communication barriers or diagnostic overshadowing. As pain may be expressed in non-verbal or atypical ways, carers and professionals must use alternative methods to identify […]

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Date to be confirmed 2026! Description: Compassionate conversations about death and dying are important for people with a learning disability and autistic people, as they enable them to be involved in decisions about their care, comfort, beliefs, and how they want to be remembered, in ways that are meaningful to them. People with a learning […]

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A new report from the Royal College of Nursing is calling for learning disability nursing to be strengthened to help support the unique healthcare needs of people with a learning disability.

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A new survey from Mencap has found that 48% of employers have a misplaced fear of getting it wrong when employing people with a learning disability.

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This year's annual conference by DFN Project SEARCH discussed how to break down the barriers that people with learning disabilities face in securing employment.

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The Government recently published its Schools White Paper, saying it “sets out a vision for education for the next decade, for a generation of children who will live into the next century”. But what are the legal implications for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)?

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Following a statement by Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch calling for the repeal of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), disability charities have responded by calling for it to be strengthened.

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A new report has found a “very significant surge” in demand for education, health and care plan (EHCP) assessments, as parents seek to secure an EHCP before new SEND legislation takes effect in 2029.

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