Learning Disability Pride is a week of celebrations across Britain. We want people with learning disabilities, their friends, families and supporters to have marches, walks, parties and events all across the country from 15th to 21st June 2019.
Category: learning disability
Telling stories, touching lives event
NICE: Topic expert : service model for people with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges
NICE are looking for topic experts to join the service model for people with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges quality standards advisory committee.
Closing date: 26 October 2018
The Times: Father beats legal bid to silence him over autistic girl in hospital ‘cell’
A father has won an extraordinary legal battle against a council that sought to gag him from speaking about the forced confinement of his daughter.
Bethany, 17, has been detained for almost two years in a psychiatric hospital. The teenager, who has autism and suffers from extreme anxiety, is locked in a cell-like room with only a mattress and chair and is fed through a hatch in a metal door.
Independent: Disability hate crimes rise by one-third in a year across England and Wales
Disability hate crime has risen by more than a third over the last year, shocking new figures have revealed.
The latest police figures show a 33 per cent increase in disability hate crime across England and Wales in 2017-18 compared to 2016-17.
Thirty-two of the 43 police forces which responded to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request recorded a total of 5,342 disability hate crimes in 2017-18, compared to 4,005 offences the previous year.
