Health Education England have been directed by the task and finish group members that make up the workforce development to support the development of the first national Autism core skills and competency framework for health and care staff, and staff in organisations with public facing responsibilities. The framework will be required to span all ages and will need to demonstrate the collaborative nature of its development (including co-production with autistic people and their families) across multiple partners.
Category: learning disability
KSS CoP 2018 Conference evaluation
iNews: The care system remains twisted: incarcerating people with learning disabilities is inhumane Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/the-care-system-remains-twisted-incarcerating-people-with-learning-disabilities-is-inhumane
Everybody has rights as citizens of this country – so why are vulnerable young people having theirs ignored?
Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/the-care-system-remains-twisted-incarcerating-people-with-learning-disabilities-is-inhumane/
The Guardian: One hoax phone call, 12 years behind bars: the prisoners with learning disabilities
A disproportionate number of people in UK prisons have learning disabilities. Three of them tell their stories.
Revealed: National plans to transform learning disabilities care branded as ‘failing’ by nurses
Shortages of learning disabilities nurses are hampering long-drawn national plans to end the practice of vulnerable people being inappropriately sent away from their families for care, leading nurses have warned.
