Autism Autistic woman stuck in a mental health hospital for 45 years Alison Bloomer Mar 4, 2025 A BBC investigation has found that an autistic woman with a learning disability was locked up in a mental health…
News NHS spending £534 million a year to ‘lock away’ people with learning disabilities Lauren Nicolle Mar 25, 2024 The NHS is spending more than half a billion pounds per year to detain people with learning disabilities and…
Good practice and guidance New buddy scheme supports people with learning disabilities in inpatient care Lauren Nicolle Feb 19, 2024 A new buddy scheme pairs up people with learning disabilities and autistic people detained in mental health…
Challenging Behaviour Why are we still just talking about in-patient abuse? Alison Bloomer Apr 19, 2023 This week MP Barbara Keeley led a debate in the House of Commons on ways that the government could prevent the…
Uncategorized National Autistic Society calls for mental health law reform following “harrowing”… Lauren Nicolle Mar 28, 2023 The National Autistic Society (NAS) is calling on the government to reform mental health law after a Channel 4…
Autism New autism training programmes for psychiatrists launched by Health Education… Alison Bloomer Mar 28, 2023 Health Education England has commissioned two autism training programmes for psychiatrists, which they hope will…
Housing “Barbaric” that thousands remain unnecessarily detained in mental health… Lauren Nicolle Dec 19, 2022 The learning disability charity Mencap says it is “barbaric” that more than 2,000 people with learning disabilities…