Learning Disability

Destructive behaviour is distressing, expensive and hard to manage, yet often a feature of caring for someone with profound learning disability. What can we do to reduce it? Charlie is…

Adult service providers may not be aware of the changes in special needs children’s services that came into force on 1st September. Some aspects of the new SEND Code of…

Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has incurred the wrath of thousands with his Twitter comments on Down’s syndrome. Was he really saying what people read? Or was this a case…

For people with a learning disability, having a sense of self can be difficult, more so when you consider the factors many people use to define who they are. In…

For many people dependent on others for their care, the chance to just drop everything and do something random is lost. Use your common sense and give back spontaneity. Henry…

The greatest cost of any care service is personnel. Can we reduce personnel but still ensure service users are safe? Social care services are notoriously people-heavy. To deliver support to…

If you have ever had to support a service user as an inpatient on a general hospital ward, you will appreciate the need to educate doctors and nurses in positive…

For many people, the early summer can be an irritating time. The levels of grass pollen, combined with pollution, humidity and breezy weather, can lead to misery. Hay fever is…