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Hear my voice! Grassroots learning disability movement sets sights on 2015 General Election
National movement is formed to ensure voice of learning disability community is heard by candidates in 2015 General Election!
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Health Ombudsman urges action to prevent ‘avoidable’ deaths of people with a learning disability
Too many people with a learning disability are not getting access to the right care and treatment at the right time, leading to avoidable deaths in some cases, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) warns today.
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Select Committee hears evidence from Mencap spokesperson with a learning disability on barriers to voting
Today saw the first time that a Select Committee of MPs has heard evidence from an individual with a learning disability.
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Urgent action needed - Mencap and The Challenging Behaviour Foundation response to the Learning Disability Census report
Mencap and The Challenging Behaviour Foundation comment on the Learning Disability Census report which was published today by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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Arsenal Football Club becomes first Premier League Club to install accessible Changing Places toilet
Arsenal Football Club’s Emirates Stadium launched the 600th “Changing Places” fully accessible disabled toilet at the Club’s Premier League game against West Ham.
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Professionals need to know that there will be serious repercussions for failures to carry out their legal duties under the Mental Capacity Act
The House of Lords committee established to scrutinise how the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is working in practice outlined in its report published today that due to poor implementation it was failing the vulnerable people that it was designed to protect.
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Poor guidance threatens to undermine potential of Children and Families Act
Today, the Children and Families Bill has gained Royal Assent*.
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The Health Committees findings on the GMC are in contradiction to those of people with a learning disability, their family members or carers
The Health Committee’s annual review of the General Medical Council (GMC) will be released today.
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Charities call for urgent review of decisions to keep vulnerable people institutionalised
Yesterday, NHS England published the first set of quarterly data prompted by the Winterbourne View Concordat aimed at getting better care for people with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges.
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Professionals need to know that there will be serious repercussions for failures to carry out their legal duties under the Mental Capacity Act
The House of Lords committee, established to scrutinise how the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is working in practice, outlined in its report published today that due to poor implementation it was failing the vulnerable people that it was designed to protect.
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Death of a young woman with a learning disability prompts call for Independent Inquiry
Charities call on Department of Health for independent inquiry into any death of a person with a learning disability in an inpatient unit.
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Charities continue fight for justice as young man dies in NHS care
The death of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk on 4 July 2013 was preventable, according to the publication of an independent inquiry into his death, published yesterday by Verita*.
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