The Government must dramatically improve the protection it gives people with learning disabilities in the wake of abuse scandals, an official report will say. Some 3,500 vulnerable disabled people are
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Health Minister Simon Hamilton has announced that he would be investing an additional £2m per year in Autism Services to tackle waiting lists and improve access to support services. Demand
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A series of recommendations has been made for health authorities across Scotland after an investigation was held into the death by suicide of a woman at a care home. The
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Skills For Care have published a series of new resources aimed at anyone working with individual son the Autism spectrum. The guides are supported by two videos featuring people with
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More than 1,000 people with learning disabilities under the care of the NHS are suffering avoidable deaths each year, the Lords heard. Labour’s Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (pictured) insisted
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Specialist family lawyers have raised fears about parents with learning difficulties being held to a “different and more onerous” standard of parenting. Their concerns have emerged in a senior family
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A new, highly accurate test for Down’s syndrome has been recommended for high-risk women on the NHS. The simple blood test is used to detect Down’s syndrome and can also
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A family court judge is under fire after refusing to name a council she had criticised over the way social services staff dealt with the father of a four-year-old girl
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A national public investigation is “now needed” into the unexpected deaths of mental health and learning disability patients, Labour has argued. Shadow minister for mental health Luciana Berger told MPs
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A new initiative has been launched to offer parents the opportunity to take their child with autism on a short experience flight so they can assess how they cope with
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