Disability

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

Adults, Mental Health

Call for rethink of ‘flawed’ NHS plan to cut inappropriate learning disability placements

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Community Care, Adults, Workforce

Bike ride brings big smiles to young people with disabilities in Leatherhead

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Adults, Workforce

Serious case review of abuse scandal highlights lack of regulation of day centres

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Adults

No roll-out for scheme to provide disabled people with pooled personal budgets

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Adults

Independent living for disabled people diminishing, six years on from strategy to deliver it, warns report

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Jane Cummings

Adults

NHS England: learning disabled people will not be left out of group to shape future of care

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Adults, Mental Health

Labour calls for two-year deadline to end inappropriate learning disability hospital placements

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Bill Mumford

Adults, Workforce

Head of Winterbourne improvement programme steps down over safeguarding probe

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Adults

Regulator finds NHS disability facility still failing to meet standards

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Adults, Mental Health

Families warn commissioners against retaining learning disability provider simply because it is “too big to fail”

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Adults, Workforce

Government to change controversial indicator on personal budgets take-up

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Adults

MPs call personal independence payment implementation a “fiasco”

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Adults, Workforce

Strike at Barnet disability service postponed after ACAS talks

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Government issues guidance on special educational needs and disability reforms

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Adults

Social workers should do more to promote personal budgets for employment support, says study

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Adults, Workforce

Learning disabilities: ‘How positive support can cut the need for restrictive interventions’

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