safeguarding

Karen Watchman works with people with learning disabilities in both practice and in an academic setting. She spoke to LDT 2018 delegates about how to support people with a learning disability and dementia.  

The Care Quality Commission has pledged to review restrictive interventions (restraint, prolonged seclusion, and segregation) in a variety of settings.

Oliver McGowan died after being given antipsychotic medicine against his and his family's wishes. His mother speaks exclusively to LDT. 

Toolkit for accommodating neurodivergent workers is created for employers.

The use of legislation to safeguard people who lack the capacity to make their own decisions has continued to rise over the past year, including a 15% rise in guardianship orders, new figures have revealed.

NHS England has today promised rapid and sustained action to tackle the over-prescribing of psychotropic drugs to people with learning disabilities after three separate reports highlighted the need for change.

New resources have been launched that aim to aid professionals when they are making deprivation of liberty decisions.

Applications for use of the deprivation of liberty safeguards have soared, from about 13,000 a year to around 55,000 in the first two quarters of 2014/15, figures from the Care Quality Commission have revealed.

Learning disability charity Mencap has called for an independent investigation into the unexpected death of Nico Reed.

A Serious Case Review carried out after the murder of a vulnerable young man in Stockport, for which two people were sentenced to life in prison, and further three convicted of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm. [17-Sep-2012]