New mandatory training on learning disabilities and autism launched today, says Health Education England (HEE). In an effort to highlight a "lack of understanding of the needs of people with a ...

October is Learning Disability Awareness Month, which charities have described as an opportunity to raise awareness around learning disabilities and challenge stigma. It comes as the Government's new ...

Learning disability activists and academics have accused NHS England of failing to involve people with experience of services and their families in the development of a new group tasked with cutting ...

Extra funding is needed to help people with learning disabilities and autistic people move out of mental health hospitals because of the increasingly greater cost of community-based care, a government ...

New statistics from NHS England show around 40 people with a learning disability, autism or both were in inpatient services across the NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board ...

Is it autism, a learning disability, or both? If you're autistic, you're more likely to have a learning disability than the general public. In fact, around 30% of autistic people also have a learning ...

A campaign to help carers and healthcare professionals spot early signs of life-threatening constipation in people with learning disabilities has been launched by the NHS, with what it described as a ...