The Government is under pressure from its own MPs and the NEU, the largest teaching union in the UK, to ensure that the legal ...

Following a landmark new report from the Stolen Lives Task and Finish Group, the Welsh Government has committed to a ...

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust have co-designed digital changes to patient records to improve healthcare of people with learning disabilities an autistic people.

The Government has published a new National Cancer Plan and an additional equality impact assessment, both of which commit to improving detection and early intervention for disabled people, who too ...

Ambitious about Autism is launching a new campaign inviting autistic young people and their families to share their experiences of being or feeling absent from school and the impact this has had on ...

The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee in Scotland is calling for a National Standard for ADHD and autism assessments so people can access access clear, consistent pathways to support.

The latest report from LeDeR (Learning from Lives and Deaths – People with a learning disability and autistic people) has been republished and shows avoidable deaths were under reported.

A group of autism charities have said that the government's response to a House of Lords' report on the Autism Act and the new autism strategy is unacceptable.

The draft consultation for guidance on the Down Syndrome Act 2022 so far fails to recognise the importance of learning disability nurses in the health and wellbeing of people with Down's syndrome.

Disabled people are significantly more likely to report feeling lonely, than the general population, with findings showing that two in five of people living with disabilities experience loneliness, ...

New reforms to the Mental Health Act will ensure that people with a learning disability and autistic people with no co-occurring mental health conditions can only be detained for up to 28 days. The ...