A mother has told an inquiry her daughter felt she “lost her family” due to restrictions in care homes during the Covid-19 pandemic. Verona Gibson, a member of Care Home
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The Government has been urged to end the “evil practice” of autistic people being confined to inpatient mental health hospitals. Peers in Westminster have expressed disappointment that the King’s Speech
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A woman “lost the ability to talk and became a shadow her former self” after she spent nine months in hospital waiting for a place in a suitable care home,
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Autistic children and those with a learning disability should never be subjected to long-term segregation in hospital – and its use should be “severely curtailed” for adults, a review has
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Hospitals must do more to provide effective care for people with learning disabilities, the patient safety body has said. The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) said the current system
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A vulnerable former care home resident has secured the High Court’s approval of a “landmark” settlement of his legal claim over the abuse he suffered at the hands of staff.
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A lack of tailored support has led to children with special needs being taught in school cupboards, ministers have been told. The claim about the lack of special educational needs
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Doctors have agreed to provide life-saving kidney dialysis to a 17-year-old girl who has severe learning disabilities on a trial basis despite having reservations about her ability to cope, a
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A vulnerable teenager was “invisible” when she was murdered by her carers, an independent inquiry has said. Margaret Fleming (pictured) was born with learning difficulties and was just 19 when
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The mother of a 29-year-old man with severe learning disabilities and “end-stage” kidney disease is “absolutely overjoyed” after winning a “life-sustaining” treatment fight in a specialist court. Doctors told a
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