Equity for Learning Disabled people during Covid-19
Two Rescare trustees attended a webinar at the Royal Society of Medicine yesterday (30th April 2020) on Equity for Learning Disabled people during Covid-19. It was a powerful and worthwhile session and we highlight below the major points. There were three main contributors: Baroness Hollins who is herself a parent of a learning disabled person […]
CQC: “The care given to people with a learning disability or autism is not acceptable”
The Care Quality Commission’s Annual Report ‘The State of Care’ has been published today, offering us the CQC’s latest assessment of health care and social care in England. Access details of the report, view the Press Release launching it , and download the Summary and Full Report from this page on the CQC website. A key […]
Ombudsman issues special report on EHCPs and SEND – “A system in crisis?”
Just received: a press release from the LGO, who is so concerned at the percentage rise in complaints about EHCPs, and in the proportion of complaints he upholds, that he has issued a special Focus Report on the failings of the SEND system. “Children with special […]
Ombudsman’s Review paints a ‘challenging picture’ of adult social care
Published today, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s Annual Review provides an overview of the state of adult social care, confirming what many people with learning disabilities, and their families and carers, will know through personal experience. As the Ombudsman Michael King puts it ” The challenging picture we see played out in the […]
Ministerial Statement on CQC Report
Following the publication of the Care Quality Commission’s “Thematic Review of Restrictive Practices, Seclusion and Segregation”, Minister Caroline Dinenage has now issued a written statement on behalf of Department of Health and Social Care. She begins with the following statements: “The Government has made improving the care and treatment of autistic people and people with […]
Caudwell International Children’s Centre Opens Today
“First of its kind autism centre aims to dramatically cut diagnosis waiting time” This is the headline today on Sky News introducing an article on the opening of an autism diagnosis centre in Keele, Staffordshire. The headline above an article in the ‘i’ newspaper (sorry, I can’t find it online) reads “Children’s Centre will end […]
ATUs…Chair of Joint Committee on Human Rights writes to Health Secretary
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), having initially launched a wider inquiry into the detention of young people, is now conducting two separate, more focused, and inter-related inquiries into the detention of people with learning disabilities and or autism in mental health and NHS inpatient facilities. To quote the JCHR website: “As a […]
CQC reports on State of Care 2017/18.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has just published ‘The State of Care 2017/18‘, its annual assessment of health and social care in England. The report ‘looks at the trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care, and highlights where care needs to improve’. You can find links to the report, plus a summary and an […]
Reasonable Adjustments: an Excellent New Resource
Further to our feature article on Learning Disability, Health and Obesity , and specifically our reporting on Public Health England events in August and October. Speakers from Public Health England (PHE) were keen to emphasise that people with learning disabilities and/or autism should be able to access those services from the NHS to which they […]
Parliament Debates Autism and Learning Disability Training for Healthcare Professionals
Received in today, an email from the Petitions team at Parliament: Dear xxxxxx, Parliament debated the petition you signed – “Prevent avoidable deaths by making autism/learning disability training mandatory” Watch the debate: https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/b10b5496-54a6-4262-bb54-5c74ec58eedf Read the transcript: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-10-22/debates/F8EBB4E2-C858-4B5B-B2E0-39D0C25EAA4C/AutismAndLearningDisabilityTrainingHealthcareProfessionals Read the research: https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/petitions-committee/news-parliament-2017/autism-training-22-10/ The petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/221033 Thanks, The Petitions team UK Government and Parliament It is actually […]