Education Secretary Damian Hinds has announced an additional £350 million to support children with complex needs and disabilities.
Category: learning disability
Herts CC: Managing Sepsis
Lots of useful information and resources here: https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/adult-social-services/disability/learning-disabilities/my-health/sepsis/sepsis.aspx
MindEd Learning Disability
MindEd is a free educational resource on children
and young people’s mental health for all adults. They have learning disability modules too.
HSJ: Most CCGs failing to provide learning disability crisis support
New data has suggested more than half of local commissioning areas are still failing to offer crisis services to patients with autism and learning disabilities, despite NHS England making this mandatory from 2019.
In 2015, NHS England said local commissioners must ensure crisis services were in place by March 2019 to help reduce the number of hospital admissions for these patients. But data HSJ collected from clinical commissioning groups has indicated many areas are at risk of missing this deadline.
TD originals Young, Autistic and Locked Away
“Eden has been locked away and left to rot,” says Perry Collins, a London cab driver. Collins is speaking of Eden Norris, his 26-year-old stepson, who has autism and learning disabilities and lives in a locked, privately owned facility nearly 200 miles from the family’s West London home.
