“I stop and think … [I] think of the consequences to my son” This quote is one of many that illustrate the impact of a pilot programme to help prisoners
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A charity worker has become the first person from Ayrshire to pick up a global humanitarian award created in honour of the region’s most famous son, Robert Burns. Blanche Nicolson,
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The Committee for Employment and Learning has just launched an inquiry that will examine the level and quality of support available to young people with learning disabilities leaving full-time education.
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The RCN has welcomed a DHSSPS action plan on the future of learning disability nursing in Northern Ireland but has raised concerns about the decline in numbers and the ageing
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Hospital patients with learning disabilities face longer waits and mismanaged treatment due to a failure to understand them by nursing staff, says a new report. In one case, a patient
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This handbook is for colleges that want to improve the employment chances of their students who have learning disabilities and autism. Currently, the number of adults with learning disabilities who
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A new report in response to events at Winterbourne View Hospital is published today, providing information on hospital inpatients with learning disabilities in England. Of the 3,250 hospital inpatients included
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Learning Disability Wales, the charity representing the learning disability sector in Wales, has announced details of some courses taking place in the new year. Communicating Through Touch15 January 2014 in
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If you want to work as part of a team to support people with learning disabilities and their families get the best out of life, then this could be the
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DotComUnity aims to provide a one-stop online resource and directory of community services, care information and social interactivity for adults and children with a learning or physical disability within local
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