Alison Bloomer

Following a statement by Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch calling for the repeal of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), disability charities have responded by calling for it to be strengthened.

A new survey from Mencap has found that 48% of employers have a misplaced fear of getting it wrong when employing people with a learning disability.

A new report from the Royal College of Nursing is calling for learning disablity nursing to be stregthene to help support the unique healthcare needs of people with a learning disability.

Learning Disability Week should be about celebrating the achievements and attributes of our amazing learning disability community, but it is also an important opportunity to reflect on the key issues that arise not from the learning disability itself, but from barriers in society, services, and environments.

A three-year plan focused on prevention, independence, and community care has been launched to transform support for people with learning disabilities and autism in Birmingham and Solihull.

Learning Disability England is inviting signatories to support its open letter to the government, urging it to prioritise the health of people with learning disabilities.

Sense is calling on the next Prime Minister to introduce a new national framework for disabled children’s social care, so that support is based on children’s needs, not on where they live. It comes as new data shows that over 60,000 disabled children will not have access to holiday club provision this summer.

The current Personal Independence Payment (PIP) system is “dehumanising and stressful” for disabled people and those with long-term medical conditions, according to the first-ever full review of PIP.

The latest LeDeR report shows that avoidable deaths among adults with learning disabilities have declined from 46.3% in 2021 to 39.0% in 2024, but remain twice as high as in the general population.

The government has launched a new action plan concentrates to ensure people providing care are recognised as unpaid carers and know what support and services are available to make caring more manageable.