Disability

News, opinion and analysis about social work with people with disabilities

Adults

20 activities to help people with learning disabilities understand dementia

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Shared Lives schemes help people live more fulfilling lives, finds Shared Lives Plus

Adults

Shared Lives care bucks trend by growing as other services shrink

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Adults

‘We need to fiercely protect freedom and civil rights for people with learning disabilities’

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Adults

Councils breaching legal limits on disabled facilities grant timescales and driving up care costs, warns charity

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Adults

SNP manifesto calls for more money for carers and halt to welfare cuts

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Adults, Workforce

‘Visual impairment workers face crisis despite Care Act 2014’s emphasis on their role’

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Adults

Government sets expectations for social workers assessing adults with autism

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Adults, Wales

Disabled people in Wales to form co-operatives to manage their direct payments

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Adults

Dedicated team makes telecare a mainstream response to social care needs

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Adults, Wales

Wales’s Independent Living Fund users given nine months’ protection from cuts when agency closes

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Adults, Workforce

‘We must not strip the humanity out of our social care provision’

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Adults, Children

‘Councils must use government cash to support families in crisis – or face extra care costs’

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Adults

Social care has a role in preventing hate crime, it’s not just a criminal justice issue

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Workforce, Adults

‘Person-centred care is ingrained in all of us’

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Adults, Wales, Workforce

‘Welsh social care law risks taking us back 20 years by providing bare minimum’

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Adults

Court rules closure of Independent Living Fund was legal

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