Avoidable deaths

People with learning disabilities are missing out on lifesaving cancer treatment due to their cancer being found…

Of the 3,648 people with a learning disability who died in 2022, four in 10 deaths could have been avoided,…

A Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) has found that an autistic man who died at the age of 53 “was not properly…

Investigations into deaths of people with mental ill health, a learning disability or autism are “woefully…

19 reviews found that the term ‘learning disabilities’ or ‘Down’s syndrome’ was given as the reason for ‘Do Not…