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Alice recently emailed us about her son who has Asperger’s. At our request she has written a blog to highlight some of the challenges her son and her family have faced over the years.

Monday the 18th April sees the start of seven days of action to raise awareness of numbers of people with learning disabilities currently detained in ATUs, and what their lives are like.

This report is the tenth in a series of reports looking at reasonable adjustments in a specific service area....

Reasonably Adjusted? published in 2012, describes the reasonable adjustments mental health services were putting in place for people with learning disabilities and people with autism. There were pockets of imaginative and positive practice by local services – but little sharing or copying of good ideas.

We have been commissioned by NHS England to identify and make contact with all networks of learning disability self-advocates, family carers and professionals across the South of England.

VODG, National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) and National Care Forum (NCF) have published ‘The health charter in practice’ describing how providers use the Health Charter....

We are absolutely delighted to welcome Dr Carol Robinson, MBE, as our new Community Inclusion (Learning Disability) lead.

The consultation on the draft service model, 'Supporting people with a learning disability and / or autism who have a mental health condition or display behaviour that challenges' (what a mouthful) is now over, and we will wait to see what emerges.

NDTi and the British Association for Supported Employment (BASE) have been awarded a grant by the Department for Education to work together on a new project: ‘Employment is Everyone’s Business’.

Research on the impact of certain aspects of personalisation has revealed some very positive outcomes on the lives of people with learning disabilities....