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% ...

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

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

People with a learning disability are often failing to have their healthcare needs “adequately” met due to a collapsing number of learning disability nurses, according to a report from the Royal ...

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has advocated repealing the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), a legal requirement in Great Britain that obligates public authorities to consider the needs of ...

A new Learning Disability Nursing Shared Decision-Making Council has been launched by Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust to strengthen the future of learning disability nursing and ensure that ...

SeeAbility, a charity supporting people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss, has achieved a Guinness World Record for the most participants featured in a live portrait installation ...

Almost half of carers in paid employment are considering reducing their working hours or leaving work altogether because of caring commitments, according to a new report from Carers UK. The report, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Autism charities in the UK have joined forces to call on the Government to invest in a long-term strategy to reform the systems that diagnose and support autistic people. The report, A New Path Ahead: ...