The NHS Alliance has said that soaring costs associated with the rise in ADHD and autism are running out of control. They are ...

The Down’s Syndrome Association (DSA) has announced the finalists in its international photography competition for people who ...

Digital Care Hub has launched its first photo competition, inviting people across adult social care to share images of ...

Learning to Listen to People with Intellectual Disabilities who are Non-Speaking by Beverley Samways. The book explores how ...

Disability charities have welcomed findings from an independent review, led by former Health Minister Alan Milburn, which recognises the failure of government and employers to remove the barriers that ...

The National Autistic Society (NAS) has hit back at comments made today by Nigel Farage, MP and Leader of Reform UK, after he claimed that doctors are “massively over-diagnosing” children with special ...

The role of unpaid carers has been recognised by the Government in a new action plan that includes measures to help carers reach their potential in education or work. Nearly one in 10 people in ...

With the indefinite delay to the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), how can people identify when a deprivation of liberty may be taking place using the current system . . . The ...

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has advocated repealing the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), a legal requirement in Great Britain that obligates public authorities to consider the needs of ...

There has been a 3.5% drop in Local Authority fee rate uplifts across all learning disability and autism services, according to the Association for Real Change (ARC England). Fee rate uplifts are ...

The National Autistic Society (NAS) has said that a new report, which claims there is an ‘overdiagnosis’ of neurodivergence in young people, is “poorly evidenced” and “couldn’t be wider of the mark”.

Autism charities in the UK have joined forces to call on the Government to invest in a long-term strategy to reform the systems that diagnose and support autistic people. The report, A New Path Ahead: ...