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Panel disappointed with ministers’ response to its proposals to boost safeguarding of disabled children

Community Care

Government safeguarding advisers have voiced their disappointment over ministers’ response to their recommendations to improve the safeguarding of disabled children in residential settings. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle. Accepted in principle.

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Safeguarding overhaul needed to better protect disabled children in care, says abuse inquiry

Community Care

Councils should have a bigger role monitoring local residential settings in their areas to better protect disabled children, an inquiry into the abuse of children in three services has concluded. “These recommendations set out a roadmap to more humane treatment of these children.

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Best Practices for Promoting Self-Advocacy Among Your IDD Clients

Relias

For direct support professionals (DSPs) and others working in the intellectual and development disabilities field (IDD), acting as an ally for client self-advocacy is a huge part of the job. What is self-advocacy? Self-advocacy is deeply personal. Self-advocacy is deeply personal.

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The draft Mental Health Bill: parliamentary proposals for change

Community Care

Learning disabilities and autism The draft bill aims to strengthen safeguards for those with learning disabilities and autistic people. The draft bill would also remove learning disabilities and autism as conditions for which an individual could be detained for treatment under section 3 of the MHA.

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More people face paying for care as means-test threshold is frozen for 13th year

Community Care

. ‘Welcome protection for people receiving care’ Bottery said the government “deserves some credit” for its inflationary rise in the MIG, while Abrahams also welcomed the increases in this, the PEA and the savings credit disregard, saying these would “protect the income of people who have funded care” For learning (..)

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How does a speech pathologist work with autism?

Prosper Health Collective

There are also more advanced language skills like understanding turns of phrase ( “It’s raining cats and dogs”) or using indirect communication ( “This bag is so heavy!” The goal is always to find the system that fits each individual’s skills, circumstances, and preferences for communication. as a way of asking for help ).

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Behind the Poor Pay and High Turnover Rates of Direct Support Professionals

Relias

People with disabilities and their families suffer the most serious effects of staff turnover. Constant training of new workers interrupts the continuity of care that allows individuals with disabilities to reach their full potential. The State of Medicaid Programs and the Need for Grassroots Advocacy. However, it is possible.

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