The interim report of the Timms Review has found that the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) system is is failing to keep ...

Learning Disability England is inviting signatories to support its open letter to the government, urging it to prioritise the ...

Avoidable deaths among adults with learning disabilities have fallen from 46.3% in 2021 to 39.0% in 2024, according to the latest and last LeDeR report, but they remain twice as high as in the general ...

A new report from National FASD calls for a FASD Prevention and Response Programme funded by an amount equivalent to 0.25% of ...

There has been a surge in demand for occupational therapy, driven by an increase in people with multiple and complex health conditions, according to new research from the Royal College of Occupational ...

A trip to London’s West End to see a highly acclaimed play is usually an exciting, joyful event, yet the reverent hush as the audience shuffled to their seats to watch Laughing Boy suggested this ...

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is now providing sensory activity bags for patients with learning disabilities and autistic people who need to attend the emergency department. The project was the ...

The National Autistic Society (NAS) has hit back at comments made today by Nigel Farage, MP and Leader of Reform UK, after he claimed that doctors are “massively over-diagnosing” children with special ...

With the indefinite delay to the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), how can people identify when a deprivation of liberty may be taking place using the current system . . . The ...

The latest Learning from Lives and Deaths Review Programme (LeDeR) lists constipation as one of the top five (23.6%) comorbidity conditions for deaths among people with learning disabilities. The ...

New research shows that standard mental health programmes often do not work well for neurodivergent children and young people as they rely on extended periods of talking, abstract thinking and verbal ...