Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals.

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The Socail Issue

JANUARY 5, 2021

TweetAfter a year in secure care 105 miles from home, Jack Cavanagh, 17, who has autism, a learning disability and epilepsy, desperately misses his family. As a result, they say, Jack has become more anxious and isolated and recently … Continue reading The learning disabled people locked away in lockdown →

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The Socail Issue

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This is what learning disabled people are facing in this pandemic. They are the hardest hit, … Continue reading All learning disabled people should get the covid vaccine →

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Community Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A review into the “complex and fragmented” social care legal framework for disabled children has opened. The DfE’s objectives for the review are: Resolving the patchwork of legislation that currently governs social care for disabled children.

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The Guardian

APRIL 24, 2023

Across the UK, revelations of institutional abuse keep mounting up, yet people are still being denied basic respect Imagine a chain of scandals focused on a huge number of very vulnerable and fragile people.

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Community Care

MAY 10, 2022

It will produce a draft bill designed to reduce the number of detentions, tackle longstanding racial disparities in the use of compulsory powers and end the detention of people on the sole grounds of them being autistic or having learning disabilities. They would have to have a co-occurring mental health condition.

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Community Care

APRIL 21, 2023

The ‘outdated’ legal framework on social care for disabled children in England will be reviewed with a view to making it fairer and more effective. To improve how the law on social care for disabled children fits in with the law relating to children’s social care more broadly.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week. ” .

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Criticism of government decision to shelve MHA reform Social work leaders and charities heavily criticised the decision, saying it represented a missed opportunity to tackle high rates of detention, racial disparities in the use of the act and the inappropriate sectioning of autistic people and those with learning disabilities.

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Social Care

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

DanceSyndrome is an award winning dance charity based in Lancashire with a special focus on including everyone, with or without disabilities. Their performance artists attend special events and exclusive performances, emphasising what people with learning disabilities can really do. I was always, always dancing.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The reforms were designed to reduce the use of detention and CTOs, tackle their disproportionate impact on black people and end the inappropriate, and often lengthy, detention of autistic people and those with learning disabilities.

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Community Care

APRIL 10, 2024

These cover skills areas such as assessment, commissioning and training other staff; learning about particular conditions or areas of need, such as dementia, learning disabilities, stroke or autism; and general adult care qualifications at a range of different levels.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

Institutional racism Researchers also interviewed 13 practice educators from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (described as global majority in the report) and 16 who had a disability or identified as neurodivergent, for example, because they had ADHD.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. But it’s also clear there are lessons for all of us to learn. ” Urgent actions .

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

Before austerity, there was much more financing available for learning and development.” She had been working in Nigeria writing feasibility studies about agricultural finance but was called back to the UK after her mother – her brother’s main carer – fell ill. .”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

of a set of 11 indicators of need or risk, including mental health issues, disability, self-harm or going missing. The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (Nuffield FJO) found that children had, on average, 4.2 The findings came in an analysis of the first two months of applications to a national DoL court set up in July 2022.

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The Guardian

APRIL 17, 2024

Marcus Hanlin, who had Down’s syndrome and was on regime of pureed meals, choked after being left unsupervised, inquest told A man with Down’s syndrome, severe learning disabilities and poor eyesight, who died after swallowing conkers hidden in rice as part of a sensory activity at a nursing home, had been left unsupervised though staff knew he was (..)

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Relias

DECEMBER 22, 2023

For individuals living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), achieving a sense of community and belonging can be difficult. Individuals living with IDD and other disabilities can find it hard to connect with their peers or wider community, as research suggests that they frequently feel cut off. Accessibility.

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Relias

APRIL 5, 2024

The unemployment rate for persons with disabilities is more than twice that of individuals without disabilities. To help clients with disabilities find meaningful, stable jobs, many organizations have turned to customized employment. Gain insights into various tasks associated with the work.

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 27, 2021

Some lessons learned but more progress needed. Here at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW England), we are taking action to make sure human rights abuses suffered by people with learning disabilities and autistic people are never forgotten and history does not repeat itself. Home not hospitals’ resources.

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The Guardian

APRIL 26, 2023

Readers express their anger at the abuse of vulnerable people in care settings highlighted in an article by John Harris I was both saddened and enraged to read John Harris’s article about the continuing abuse and torture of people with learning disabilities and autism ( Learning-disabled and autistic people are being neglected and tortured.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Common themes discussed concerned challenges in the provider market, mental health impacts of lockdown and social isolation, issues for people with learning disabilities and people experiencing homelessness, increasing pressures on family carers, challenges regarding prevention and the changing use of technology.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Mild Intellectual Disability (MID) is a much-misunderstood diagnosis. As for Intellectual Disability (ID), this is a replacement for the older diagnosis of Mental Retardation. It first appears in the 2013 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders, 5 th Edition (DSM-5). Indeed, it is.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2024

Almost one in five said they were providing care to fewer people, while a similar proportion said they made redundancies in 2023, due to cost constraints, found the annual Pulse Check survey commissioned by learning disability provider Hft and representative body Care England. rise in the salary floor due in April 2024.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

‘Unclear, complex and energy-sapping ‘ People who used social care and their carers, as well as disabled and older people’s organisations and lawyers, told the regulator that council social care complaints processes were “unclear, complex and energy-sapping” to navigate, particularly when people were at crisis point.

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Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Are you disabling your kids? Unfortunately though, many patent do inadvertently disable their kids. With no skin in the game, being carried, the child is robbed the opportunity to learn the value of work, be it towards a responsibility or for financial self-sufficiency. They do so by coddling, carrying, and compensating.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 25, 2022

This includes digital content from the institution’s learning management system. Learn your boundaries as a social work educator. Learn about these resources and how to refer students. Learn about the teaching resources available at the institution. Teaching and Learning in Social Work. 2022, August 25).

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The Guardian

JANUARY 2, 2022

Nicola, whose 24-year-old son has been detained under the Mental Health Act since September 2017 at Cheadle Royal hospital in Cheshire, said his care is “worse than being in prison” and “people wouldn’t treat an animal” as badly.

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The Guardian

JUNE 4, 2023

On 30 May, a coroner found that Sally Lewis, a woman with learning disabilities living in a care home, died of constipation and neglect in 2017. Of course, we witness the familiar “scandal-review-inquest-lessons learned” story on its loop. Some days it feels as if “burden” is not a strong enough word to describe things.

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Prosper Health Collective

JULY 31, 2023

million Australians with communication disabilities. However, for many individuals, communication can present challenges due to various disabilities and disorders. For young children, speech pathologists may focus on helping them communicate their needs, play with friends, and facilitate learning.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 29, 2022

Shiplee, who is 75 and lives in Worlingham, east Suffolk, then heard about an initiative called the Befriending Scheme , which connects adults with learning difficulties or mental health needs to people in their community. She signed up and was paired with Julie Martin, 58, from nearby Beccles, who has a learning disability.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My friend Jean Bell, who has died aged 62, was an artist and craftswoman and a much-loved founding member of the L’Arche community in south London, where 100 people with and without learning disabilities share life together. Jean was born in Lambeth, south London, to Gladys (nee McLean), a housewife, and Harold Bell, a builder.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Charities and not-for-profit firms have poured millions of pounds of reserves into propping up the supposedly taxpayer-funded services they provide under contract to councils and the NHS.

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The Critical Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Click to find out more This chapter provides: an understanding of the framework for the SEND CoP within the context of past legislation and guidance; identification of the current principles underpinning the current CoP; a consideration of definitions and terminology within the field of SEND; a discussion of medical and social models of disability.

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The Guardian

APRIL 5, 2024

million people who are juggling employment with caring for long-term sick, disabled or elderly loved ones. But in some ways it’s worse, because the person we love is suffering, not learning and growing. This change, which comes into effect tomorrow, will affect about 2.5 I know first-hand why carer’s leave is sorely needed.

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Health & Social Care Workforce

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Karl Womack is a disability activist and poet who lives in a care home. I was born with acute paralysis, epilepsy and a learning … Continue reading → 544 words) Karl about Karl My name is Karl Jonathan Womack. I was born in 1966.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 11, 2021

Social Work Virtual Pal (#SWVirutal Pal) is a global and virtual community of practice for the social work profession, that digitizes the practice of having a pen pal for professional learning and networking. Click here to learn more about Social Work Virtual Pal. Teaching & Learning in Social Work Blog. Amanda and Laurel.

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