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ENABLE Scotland has launched a new campaign which aims to get people with learning disabilities out of inpatient units and into the community, where they can live closer to home.

Three care homes for people with learning disabilities have been rated inadequate overall and placed in special measures by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Sussex Health Care (SHC) has closed six care homes following a series of damning reports by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Joanne Hall has been working for United Response, a disability charity, for fifteen years. 

In order to protect vulnerable people, the Government has brought forward a Bill that proposes amendments to the Mental Capacity Bill. 

The question of whether to have your learning disabled child living at home or move them into supported living is as difficult as it is inevitable: explored here by Darren Devine. 

Two friends from Cornwall are celebrating leaving residential care to live in the community

Mayo House, a service providing care and accommodation for people with complex behavioural support needs, has been rated ‘outstanding’ by Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors.

NHS England has published proposals to close England’s last old-style long-stay learning disability hospital at Calderstones in Lancashire, and create more community support for people with a learning disability and/or autism in the Northwest.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is taking action to protect the safety and welfare of people with learning disabilities using a care home in Streatham, southwest London following an inspection that found it to be inadequate.

The need for autism-specific respite care has become so critical that social workers have been 'begging' for help to find emergency placements for people with autism in crisis, according to a charity.

A new housing development has opened in Ormesby offering 12 specially designed one-bedroom apartments for individuals with learning disabilities.

A woman with learning disabilities was surprised by staff at the residential home she lives in when they arranged the trip of a lifetime for her recently – a private flight in a twin-propeller aeroplane.

Learning disability charity Dimensions has welcomed the launch of the government's 'Homes not Hospitals' report but warned that the fact it only covers NHS facilities means the commissioning of inappropriate beds is likely to continue.

People with learning disabilities will be supported to lead more independent lives and have greater say about the support they receive under a new national plan aimed at "radically improving learning disability services".