Disability

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

Adults, Workforce

Government resumes bid to shut Independent Living Fund in 2015

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Adults, Mental Health

Commissioners ‘complacent’ on ending Winterbourne-style care, says programme chief

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Adults, Workforce

Person-centred commissioning needed to end health-social care split, says Labour Party review

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Adults

Death of 18-year-old in failing NHS learning disability unit was preventable, finds inquiry

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Adults

Offenders with learning disabilities failed by criminal justice agencies

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Adults

Support from social workers ‘essential’ in helping learning disabled people into work, finds study

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Adults, Workforce

Short-term and cost-driven care planning blighting lives of people with learning disabilities

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Adults, Workforce

Sector looks on with dismay at lack of progress on transforming care post-Winterbourne

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Adults, Workforce

No decline in number of learning disabled people placed in hospitals since 2010

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Adults, Workforce

Winterbourne View improvement programme loses top two leaders

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Adults, Workforce

Lessons from history: Why any transfer of the Independent Living Fund to councils must be ring-fenced

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Peter Gilbert praised for his outstanding contribution to social work

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Adults, Workforce

NHS continuing care assessment failings causing great distress and expense for clients, finds inquiry

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Adults, Workforce

Bridging the commissioner-provider divide to improve care for people with learning disabilities

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Adults, Workforce

NHS learning disability service closed to admissions after CQC condemns quality of care

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Adults, Workforce

‘Why social workers should care about home ownership for disabled people’

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