A new employment White Paper has been published today that seeks to tackle the root causes of unemployment and get disabled ...

A new partnership between the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and AI company Agilisys will look at ways digital ...

The government has announced 'major reforms' to children’s social care, giving Ofsted greater powers to crack down on ...

This article summarises some key pieces of research in the learning disability and autism field over recent weeks.

Cerebra has published a guide to self-injury in children with a learning disability to help parent-carers better understand ...

The adult social care sector will have to change if it wants to recruit and retain more young people, according to a new ...

MP Kim Leadbeater has put forward her proposal for a 'assisted dying' Bill that would allow terminally ill adults to request ...

A new project will track the health of people with Down syndrome to improve quality of life and accelerate knowledge of ...

More than 200,000 people are still waiting for a autism assessment in England, which is a 25% increase in one year, according ...

Prof. Emily Farran discusses a new research project which aims to alter the research landscape to better suit the needs of ...

Disabled people are being held back from participating in good jobs which is contributing to the rise in caseloads for ...

Sheila Sobrany is President of the Royal College of Nursing and a course leader in adult nursing at the University of East London. At the LDT and Kingston conference, Sheila spoke about the future of ...