residential care

Darren Devine discusses how moving people from hospitals to community settings can be antithetical to the spirit of transforming care. 

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.