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The Green Light Toolkit to improve mental health services for People with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism was launched by the Department for Health at Learning Disabilities Today in London on 28th November 2013.

Improving the uptake of screening services by people with learning disabilities across the South West Peninsula....

Under English laws about equalities, public sector organisations have to tailor the way they provide care so that disabled people are not at a disadvantage. This may mean making physical adjustments to buildings such as...

I cannot sleep without challenging the views that Rosa Monkton shared with Lorraine Kelly on TV

NDTi has today published interim findings from research into the cost effectiveness of local authority and NHS investment in employment supports for people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems.

This report is the third in a series of reports written by the Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory (LDPHO: www.ihal.org.uk ) focusing on reasonable adjustments in a specific service area. The aim of these reports...

Good oral health can promote better communication and nutrition, and improve self-esteem and confidence, whereas poor oral health, in addition to detrimental effects on the above, can lead to pain and discomfort that people with...

People with learning disabilities have significantly higher rates of mortality and morbidity than their non-disabled peers.4-6 Whilst the incidence of deaths from most cancers in the UK among people with learning disabilities is currently lower...

Based on our engagement with and work alongside families, two years ago NDTi and Dimensions identified a shared concern about how families of people with learning disabilities were, or more commonly were not, becoming truly...

OK, this is a longer blog than usual, but Monday night’s Panorama programme about an elderly lady with dementia being abused and neglected in a care home made me angry