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Including people with learning disabilities in our communities cannot be done simply by saying ‘come in, the water is lovely’. Appropriate specialised training and support is needed to assist people’s development. I am a great believer in the validity of the work carried out by the earlier researchers...
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Being disabled should not prevent someone from being debarred or prevented from being a parent – but if you are learning disabled or have mental health issues, then that is not necessarily the case. Not because you as a person are not capable of being a parent but because in a ‘risk averse’ Social Services...
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Valuing People NOW!!!! Another day, another document rolls out from the ‘Tree Destroyer” aka the Department of Health. Yet another attempt to reinvigorate or change the way in which services are provided and or delivered to people with learning disabilities or so it says. It looks like another gigantic...
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GP Michael Fitzpatrick has argued that annual health check for people with learning disabilities are not needed because there is no widespread discrimination against them in the NHS and there's a danger it will just turn into a box ticking exercise. I wondered whether this was people's experience...