residential care

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".

NHS England has been too slow to act in its closure of inpatient wards for people with learning disabilities, while failing to ensure the necessary replacement community support is in place, according to Sir Stephen Bubb in his six-month follow up to his earlier report ‘Winterbourne View – Time for Change’.