The dramatic move follows Mail on Sunday revelations that hundreds of teenagers and adults are being incarcerated – at a cost to the NHS of up to £730,000 a year per person – in appalling conditions, forcibly injected with drug cocktails and stuffed into tiny padded isolation cells. 

Harriet Harman, chairman of the influential joint committee on human rights, has invited parents of sectioned teenagers as well as people held against their will to give evidence this week, as part of a wider inquiry into detention.

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A new National Autistic Society report lays bare the extent of the scandal of autistic people being left behind in mental health hospitals* (including Assessment and Treatment Units) – often miles away from their friends and family and subject to unnecessary seclusion, restraint and overmedication. 

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Thanks to government austerity, 40% of disabled children are now so poor that they’re going without presents.

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Intimate self touch and masturbation can be difficult for professionals who work with people with learning disabilities to deal with, particularly when it happens in public, or in front of other clients.

Sometimes people with learning disabilities are carrying out the masturbation somewhere private and appropriate but they are not able to masturbate effectively, or they use objects that are not fit for purpose, so they hurt themselves. 

The aim of this course is to support practitioners working with people with learning disabilities to enable clients to masturbate safely and effectively if they so choose.

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