Learning Disability news

Paid and unpaid carer sickness, stringent self-isolation measures, and increased personal caring commitments make for a depleting social care workforce. Here's what the Care Act easements under the Coronavirus Act 2020 means...

The Social Care Funding and Workforce inquiry will not examine wider questions relating to social care such as financial eligibility or how to raise extra funds for social care.

Deemed 'uncaring, undignified and disrespectful' in a 2019 inspection report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), St Andrew's Healthcare has plans to reduce the numbers of patients in its Child and Adolescence Mental Health Service (CAMHS) units by more than two thirds.

The Family Carer Support Service, delivered by the national charity, offers free support to any family carer in England who has a relative with a learning disability or autism.

"We can’t tell local councils how they should run their social care," says the govt in its long-awaited offical response to the latest LeDeR report.

Matt Hancock receives pre-action letter from Equality and Human Rights Commission after "consistently failing patients with learning disabilities and autism".

Over 2,000 people with learning disabilities or an autism diagnosis continue to live in hospital settings, with over 3,000 "restrictive interventions" occuring over a one month period.

Research by charity Ambitious About Autism found 46% of parents report their child(ren) waited over 1.5 years from referral to receiving an autism diagnosis. In light of this the charity has created a toolkit to support parents in supporting their children. 

Centre for Mental Health evidence review finds school seclusion, restraint and exclusion can increase trauma in children with mental health difficulties.

People with a learning disability are seven times as likely as their non-disabled peers to be lonely, according to research from Mencap. This Christmas, the charity is calling for urgent action to be taken to tackle the loneliness epidemic faced by people with a learning disability.