With reform of the Mental Health Act, new guidance from NHS England focuses on supporting autistic people and people with ...

Sitting in an ambulance as my 15-year-old son was blue-lighted to hospital with non-stop seizures, my mind drifted to the ...

The latest and last LeDeR report shows that avoidable deaths among adults with learning disabilities have declined from 46.3% ...

When theatre director and author Stephen Unwin adapted Sara Ryan’s profoundly moving and heartbreaking memoir for the stage last year, it offered a powerful portrait of the political indifference ...

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

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, ...

The National Autistic Society (NAS) has said that a new report, which claims there is an ‘overdiagnosis’ of neurodivergence in young people, is “poorly evidenced” and “couldn’t be wider of the mark”.

Too many families are navigating an underfunded, ‘cobbled together’ social care system that lacks ownership and accountability, according to Baroness Casey, chair of the Government’s social care ...

Care England is calling on the Government to treat adult social care as a national priority, move beyond short-term fixes, and recognise its contribution of approximately £78 billion to the UK economy ...

A new report reveals there is a significant ‘activity gap’ between disabled people and their non-disabled peers, despite disabled people expressing a strong desire to be more active. Activity Alliance ...

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 ...