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Autism and learning disability, we’ve done the training, now what?

January 5, 2023
Hannah Kelly, QCS Domiciliary Care Specialist, on how mandatory training in autism and learning disability can become part of your culture as a provider. In recent months, supporting autistic people…
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Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism Launched

November 14, 2022
zThe Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism to assist health and care staff caring and supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people has been launched.…
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Autism and learning disabilities training is now mandatory for care workers

July 4, 2022
All health and social care providers registered with the CQC need to ensure staff receive training on learning disabilities and autism from 1 July 2022. The training should be appropriate…
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Celebrating community support for people with a learning disability, a mental health need and autistic people

October 18, 2021
Knowledge in action I’m definitely a visual person when it comes to learning. Those words on a paper mean so much more when they have a story, something to listen…
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Right Support, Right Care, Right Culture

October 26, 2020
CQC launch new guidance to support autism and/or learning disability services. Getting it right Updating their approach to registering autism and learning disability services, CQC has launched Right Support, Right…
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Registering a service for people with learning disabilities or autism? It pays to do your homework.

September 9, 2020
If you are planning to register a new service for people with learning disabilities or autism, what do you need to consider? Download our factsheet here.  Download Now Alternatively, you…
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Jobs for People with Learning Disabilities

August 23, 2019
  This year, My Life My Choice is running a campaign about jobs for people with learning disabilities. We think this is a very important issue and more needs to…
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Is the CQC Fit for Purpose in Learning Disability Services?

July 30, 2019
    In our regular guest opinion piece from My Life My Choice, they ask if the CQC is Fit for Purpose. Recently there has been a lot of criticism…
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