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17 December 2010
Disabled people are almost twice as likely as able-bodied people not to be able to work, have a holiday or take courses according to a bleak assessment in the first official survey of people with disabilities since 1997.
13 December 2010
The £359m Independent Living Fund which supports more than 21,000 people with severe disabilities is to be phased out by 2015. The ILF pays out an average of £300 a week, to help people pay for carers so they can live at home and not in a care home.
16 October 2010
In response to news that three 18-year olds who tortured a younger autistic teenager for three days have been given community service orders and curfews. Ian Birrell the father of a child with profound learning difficulties asks "just how far are we, as a society, prepared to let violent crime against the disabled spiral upwards?
14 October 2010
Progress on improving health and social care for learning disabled people has been slow despite last year's damning report into the deaths of six learning disabled people in hospital, the Department of Health says. The DH's Six Lives - Progress Report says improvements were "overly reliant on individual staff members or local groups" and had not been mainstreamed.
13 October 2010
Disabled people in care who want to live more independently are being prevented from doing so by funding wrangles between local authorities.
14 September 2010
Learning disabled people living in the community are increasingly finding themselves the victims of so-called mate crime.
11 August 2010
Fears that learning disabled people leaving NHS residential accommodation are being "institutionalised by the back door" in private hospitals are unfounded, a Community Care investigation has revealed.
09 August 2010
Almost 65,000 disabled people, including those with profound mental health problems, are at risk of losing their homes because of a cut in mortgage payment support for vulnerable people, according to the body representing housing associations.
14 July 2010
Discrimination against people with learning disabilities and misconceptions about their lives is still widespread in the UK, despite a string of high profile hate crime cases, a poll by Turning Point has revealed.
30 June 2010
More than 150,000 learning disabled adults are living with carers aged 70-plus.
21 June 2010
Almost half of doctors (46%) and a third of nurses (37%) say that people with a learning disability receive a poorer standard of healthcare than the rest of the population.
15 June 2010
Parents with learning disabilities feel the most harshly judged by social workers according to a report from the children's commissioner published today.
14 June 2010
Councils' record in tackling the harassment of disabled people will come under scrutiny in a major inquiry launched by the Equality and Human Rights Commission today.
09 April 2010
The NHS and councils are "institutionalising people with learning disabilities by the back door", according to the head of a provider umbrella body.
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