A 14-year-old girl suffered an accidental death contributed to by neglect while under the care of the Priory, an inquest jury has ruled. Amy El-Keria died after tying a scarf
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Families of victims of the Winterbourne View scandal have written to the Prime Minister demanding he shuts outdated care home institutions. In an open letter they express “anger” at the
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The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland has published 13 new reports on its visits to NHS hospital wards and units for people with mental ill health, learning disability or dementia.
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The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland in partnership with the Scottish Government has appointed Clare Henderson as Sensory Impairment Strategy Coordinator. Clare has been the strategic lead for RNIB
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Killer Steven Beards will serve at least 33 years in prison after luring a student with learning difficulties to his wife’s bungalow then drugging, raping and murdering her. Susan Whiting
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A new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to educate anyone interested in learning more about autism, Asperger’s and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been launched by the University of Derby. The
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The Government has announced a new taskforce is to be establised to help more people with learning disabilities to access apprenticeships. The taskforce comes as part of the goal to
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Some groups of people are “often excluded from wider health services” affecting their end-of-life care, a report found. Groups mentioned in the report as being disadvantaged are people who are
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A learning disability charity is calling on a dating website to remove an “inappropriate, offensive and discriminatory” question from its site. Mencap has said OkCupid asks users as part of
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The Social History of Learning Disability (SHLD) Research Group, based in the Faculty of Health & Social Care at The Open University have announced registrations for their next 2016 Conference
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