Category: learning disability
Mail online: Profiteers of Misery: Parents slam health fat cats in UK and US who are raking in as much as £730,000 annually for every autistic child they ‘lock up’ in secretive secure psychiatric units
The Mail on Sunday reveals that seven providers are charging taxpayers up to £730,000 a year for each patient held in controversial and secretive secure psychiatric units.
Community Care: ‘The funding panel seems to forget there is a person waiting for their needs to be met’
An adults’ social worker shares their experience of how the funding panel works in their local authority
BBC: Sarah Gordy honoured at Buckingham Palace
Sarah Gordy, become the first woman with Down’s syndrome to be made an MBE.
Gordy, who has appeared in Call the Midwife and Upstairs Downstairs, said it was “just fantastic” to return to the palace, having previously visited as a celebrity ambassador for the charity Mencap.
Congratulations Sarah!
NDTi: Advocacy Awareness Week
Lots of updates from a great Advocacy Awareness week over at NDTi here.
