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Criminal injustice

01 December 2008

Learning Disability Practice

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‘If you’re someone like me, they treat you like a piece of dirt. My dad is not an MP, my mum isn’t clever. I’m just a nobody and people can do what they like.’

Mixed fortunes

01 May 2008

Learning Disability Practice

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Good reputations are hard won, especially in the field of learning disabilities where more than a few services have recently been undone by poor management, abusive...

Staying alive

01 October 2008

Learning Disability Practice

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Seventy six per cent in favour is a big majority. There are caveats, but it seems that the learning disability branch programme of nurse education has overwhelming...

A tough act to follow

01 February 2009

Learning Disability Practice

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More people attended London’s theatres in 2008 than in any other year on record. Almost 14 million people attended the capital’s auditoria, the Society of London...

Alert to patients’ needs

01 February 2009

Learning Disability Practice

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Mencap’s Death by Indifference (2007) was a damning report that detailed the deaths of six people with learning disabilities while in hospital under NHS care. It...

No ordinary life

01 February 2002

Learning Disability Practice

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Julie Malloy, 43, has profound intellectual disability and additional physical disabilities. These include a curvature of the spine, rheumatoid arthritis and...

Meeting mental health needs count us in!

01 February 2003

Learning Disability Practice

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In October 2001 the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities convened a year- long inquiry to explore a woefully neglected area: the mental health needs of...

Planning for tomorrow

01 June 2003

Learning Disability Practice

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Learning disability services are facing a major demographic crisis. One of the biggest worries for family carers is what will happen when they are no longer able to...

Minority report

01 May 2004

Learning Disability Practice

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There are few issues in the field of learning disabilities on which everyone - government, service users and carers, service providers, professionals and voluntary...

Opportunity knocks?

01 March 2005

Learning Disability Practice

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In December 2003, the prime minister’s strategy unit, which helps government departments to analyse major policy issues, launched a project to look at ways of...