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Spokeswoman with a learning disability highlights importance of social care for those who need it most
Yesterday, Mencap spokeswoman Lorraine Bellamy told the All Party Parliamentary Group on Health and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Learning Disability about how she struggled to live independently before she was able to get social care at home
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Response to Monitoring the Mental Health Act 2012/13 report
Jan Tregelles, chief executive of Mencap and Vivien Cooper, chief executive of The Challenging Behaviour Foundation, respond to the CQC’s Monitoring the Mental Health Act 2012/13 report.
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The closure of two short breaks centres in Cornwall may push family carers to breaking point
8 out of 10 family carers feel exhausted, isolated and even suicidal due to local council cuts to short break services across the country, a report from Mencap has found.
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Disability Charities Consortium responds to Government paper on Disability Employment Strategy
Today the Government published ‘The disability and health employment strategy: the discussion so far’.
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Mencap and The Challenging Behaviour Foundation comment on the lack of progress since Winterbourne View
Mencap and The Challenging Behaviour Foundation comment on The Learning Disability Census, and Winterbourne View: Transforming Care – One Year On, which were announced today (13 December 2013)
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Mencap and The Challenging Behaviour Foundation comment on the lack of progress since Winterbourne View
Mencap and The Challenging Behaviour Foundation comment on The Learning Disability Census, and Winterbourne View: Transforming Care – One Year On, which were announced today.
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Mencap and The Challenging Behaviour Foundation respond to Slade House failings
The Care Quality Commission has declared that Slade House, an NHS assessment and treatment unit in Oxford, requires urgent action to make it safer.
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Mencap comments on Government response to Francis Inquiry
Mencap has commented on the Government’s response to the Francis Report, which was commissioned in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire scandal where hundreds of patients died as the result of appalling failings in care.
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Mencap’s response to new GP contract for 2014/15
Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, today announced the new GP contract for 2014/15 agreed between the British Medical Association’s General Practice Committee and NHS England, and directed by the Department of Health.
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Joint Statement on Winterbourne View Concordat Event
Mencap and the Challenging Behaviour Foundation give their statement on Norman Lamb’s announcement today on the changes to the Joint Improvement Board at the Winterbourne View Concordat Signatories Event.
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Mencap response to NHS complaints review
The independent review of complaints was released today, chaired by the Rt. Hon Ann Clwyd MP and Professor Tricia Hart.
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Charities call for tough action as new allegations of abuse come to light
Police have arrested seven care workers on suspicion of abuse after a victim of the Winterbourne View scandal was allegedly abused again.
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