Archive for June, 2011
Mental health in people with learning disabilities
People with learning disabilities and their families tell us that they do not get support to think or talk about mental health problems in the same way that they get increasingly with physical health.
Learning Disability Week
This week we are celebrating Learning Disability Week, a week which provides charities and care organisations with an opportunity to raise awareness of the important issues that impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities.
Philip Davies MP’s comments on employment rights
Mr Davies’ suggestion that the discrimination and lack of understanding faced by people with learning disabilities in the workplace means that they should work for less than is deemed acceptable for everyone else displays a breathtaking ignorance and is deeply offensive.
Citizen-led developmental support could be effective in limiting abuse or neglect
It is essential that the inspection and monitoring processes used by the CQC and care managers are re-designed as there is too much room for abuse to go unnoticed within the current system.
Nearly 150,000 people with dementia are wrongly prescribed antipsychotics
We have partnered with the Dementia Action Alliance today to call for all antipsychotic prescriptions for people with dementia to be reviewed by 31 March 2012.
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