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

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

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 ...

Disabled people are significantly more likely to report feeling lonely, than the general population, with findings showing that two in five of people living with disabilities experience loneliness, ...

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 ...

The draft consultation for guidance on the Down Syndrome Act 2022 so far fails to recognise the importance of learning disability nurses in the health and wellbeing of people with Down's syndrome . . ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) has found that an autistic man who died at the age of 53 “was not properly assessed” and “his needs were not met” in the months leading up to his death. The man, ...