“Dignity is for everyone, everywhere, always”
It's the summer holidays, so plenty of time for family trips! But what if you can't go anywhere, because you won't be able to use the loo?
29 Jul 2015
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Bid to create GCSE in British Sign Language wins funding boost
SUPPORT: (Left to right) : Gillian Marshall-Dyson, funding and projects co-ordinator at Signature, Lindsay Foster, chief operating officer of Signature and Norman Eric Heaviside, Provincial Grand Master for the Province of Durham
28 Jul 2015
Families of people with learning disabilities say care is a 'national scandal'
The author of a review into the care of people with learning disabilities in England has reported an "absence of any tangible progress" since he issued it. What do those affected think about this news?
28 Jul 2015
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27 Jul 2015
Urgent action on over-medication
Today NHS England pledged urgent action on over-medication of people with a learning disability. You can read their announcment here. Dan Scorer, our Head of Policy and Viv Cooper, Chief Executive at the Challenging Behaviour Foundation have responded to the news: "The research findings issued today by the NHS shine a light on the shocking scale of the inappropriate use of medication. It is simply outrageous that up to 35,000 adults with a learning disability are being prescribed an antipsychotic, an antidepressant or both without appropriate clinical justification.
27 Jul 2015
Paulley wins fight to take bus access case to Supreme Court
A disabled campaigner who is battling to protect the rights of wheelchair-users to travel on buses has won permission for his appeal to be heard by the Supreme Court.
27 Jul 2015