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For the first time in a long time, many people will have woken up to a frost this week - and will have turned the central heating on without a second thought. But for some people with learning disabilities, that isn't an option. In fact,…
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In the summer, people with learning disabilities and the carers and professionals who live and work with them could have been forgiven for wondering if anything positive ever happens in the sector. The news agenda was dominated by the…
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Last Friday, one of the most excluded groups in society – people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) – took centre stage at an event at City Hall in London.
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The government has launched a ‘listening exercise’ this week on the future of adult social care. But will they actually take any notice of what they hear? I doubt it.
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Since last year, when the government announced its plans to replace disability living allowance (DLA) with the personal independent payment (PIP), claimants have been worried about the potential adverse effect the change could have on them.
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Events this summer have posed some fundamental questions about learning disability services but, as yet, there have been few concrete answers.
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There's been plenty of bad news out there in the learning disability sector, and with stories in recent months such as the Winterbourne View scandal, cutbacks to social care services and all the rest, but Dan Parton says it's important to…
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The Panorama programme on Winterbourne View was broadcast nearly 2 months ago now. Amid much outcry, investigations have begun, with the talk of such things never being allowed to happen again. But since then, on the ground, has anything…
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Ever since the Welfare Reform Bill was announced in February people have been concerned that those living in residential care will lose their independence if, as the government plans, the mobility component of disability living allowance…
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There was nothing of great surprise in the white paper Open Public Services white paper published this week.
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