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All change: learning disability and the new government
By Alison Bloomer On Jul 18, 2024. With a new government comes the promise of change and in the field of learning disability and autism, change is very much needed. In just two weeks, the new Labour government has hit the ground running claiming that ‘the hard work starts now’. The King’s Speech yesterday gave us the first chance to look ...
What are the biggest issues facing people with a learning disability?
Jun 19, 2023 · For Learning Disability Week, Mencap have released the results of its Big Learning Disability Survey, which takes place every two years. It looks at issues such as healthcare, discrimination, money and support with the aim of using the results to campaign for change. Nearly 2,000 people with a learning disability took part in the survey and ...
Good Lives Manifesto: LDE calls on next government to prioritise …
May 21, 2024 · Learning Disability England has published its Good Lives Manifesto 2024, which includes six key priorities for the next government. More than 450 people from the 680 organisation were involved in creating these key goals, highlighting what is most important to them to ensure people with learning disabilities lead good lives.
Education - Learning Disability Today
Thousands of children with SEND unable to access formal education. Lauren Nicolle Feb 14, 2024. Education. Data obtained by ITV News has revealed that 8,660 children in England, Scotland and Wales are unable to access….
People with a learning disability four times as likely to develop ...
Nov 30, 2023 · People with a learning disability are almost four times as likely to develop non-Covid-19 related sepsis and have an increased 30-day mortality risk, according to a new study. The research, published in eClinicalMedicine, analysed 248,767 cases of non-Covid-19 sepsis from January 2019 to June, 2022 matched with 1,346,166 controls and found that ...
Time to end blanket restrictions in learning disability settings
Feb 21, 2024 · Blanket restrictions are policies applied across a group of patients or residents in learning disability or mental health settings regardless of need. They are the subtle ways people with learning disabilities and autism can see their quality of life eroded. Having everyone in bed early on a Friday evening or preventing people from venturing ...
Dementia & learning disability: common conditions made complex
Jul 31, 2024 · Dementia is a progressive condition that affects mental processes such as memory and problem-solving, as well as mood or behaviour. 1 There are almost 100,000 people currently living with dementia in the UK and this is projected to rise to 1.4 million in 2040. 2 People with learning disabilities are more likely to develop dementia and it is particularly common in those with Down’s syndrome ...
Diagnostic overshadowing and learning disability: can we help ...
Mar 23, 2022 · The General Medical Council defines diagnostic overshadowing in the context of learning disabilities as “symptoms of physical ill health that are mistakenly attributed to either a mental health/behavioural problem or as being inherent in the person’s learning disabilities”. As the NHS begins to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and ...
Change It Up - Learning Disability Today
Lauren NicolleSenior Reporter. Change It Up. Learning Disability Today calls for housing, care and health approaches to be designed to reflect the wishes of those with learning disabilities and / or autism themselves. 104 people with learning disabilities and / or autism, interviewed by Learning Disability Today between January – March 2020 ...