To look at the issues facing people with a learning disability and their families. The group looks at the key issues of the day, across areas including health, social care, education, employment and benefits.
1. Closed consultation: Learning disability and autism training for health and care staff
12/04/2019 - Department of Health and Social Care
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Found: Learning disability
and autism
training for health and care staff
A consultation
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2. Closed consultation: Learning disability and autism training for health and care staff
12/04/2019 - Department of Health and Social Care
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Found: Learning disability
and autism training for
health and care staff
Please tell us what you
3. Learning Disability
18/09/2018 - Parliamentary Research
Found: PAPER Number 07058, 18 September 2018 Learning Disability - policy and services By Elizabeth Parkin
4. Institute of Development Studies - written evidence
06/03/2019 - Inquiry: DFID's work on disability - International Development Committee
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Found: Development Committee Inquiry: DFID's work on disability Institute of Development Studies (IDS) evidence
5. LeDeR third annual programme report: government response
12/02/2020 - Department of Health and Social Care
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Found: The Government response to the
third annual Learning Disabilities
Mortality Review (LeDeR)
Programme
1. Health: Learning Disability and Autism Training
10/02/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: steps they are taking to mandate training on learning disability and autism for all health and social care - Speech Link
2: therapeutic resources to empower people with learning disability and autism and to educate those who support - Speech Link
2. Learning Disabilities Mortality Review
15/05/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: the response given to an Urgent Question on the learning disabilities mortality review originally made - Speech Link
2: with a learning disability have worse physical and mental health than people without a learning disability - Speech Link
3. Learning Disabilities Mortality Review
15/05/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: deaths among those of our population with a learning disability and to addressing the persistent health inequalities - Speech Link
2: Minister doing now to ensure that no more people with learning disabilities die early because of poor care?Lastly - Speech Link
3: recommendations that improve care for people with learning disabilities and autism and address the shameful - Speech Link
4. Autism and Learning Disability Training: Healthcare Professionals
22/10/2018 - Westminster Hall
1: e-petition 221033 relating to autism and learning disability training for healthcare professionals.It - Speech Link
2: professionals has never had training on learning disability or autism. This is unacceptable. Two thirds - Speech Link
5. Covid-19: Effect on People with Learning Disabilities
15/12/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: effect of the covid-19 outbreak on people with learning disabilities.It is a great pleasure to - Speech Link
6. Covid-19: People with Learning Difficulties and Autism
05/10/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: have put in place to meet the needs of those with learning difficulties and autism during the COVID-19 pandemic - Speech Link
2: serious risks and challenges for people with a learning disability and autistic people. That is why we have - Speech Link
3: appreciate that, as he said, people suffering from learning difficulties have particular problems when isolated - Speech Link
4: specifically at charities that are supporting those with learning difficulties to ensure that they get the support - Speech Link
5: would like to pay tribute to the work of the learning disability and autism advisory group for its social - Speech Link
6: facing many parent carers of people with a learning disability who are older people, who often themselves - Speech Link
7: often the overlooked supporters of those with learning difficulties and autism. The plight of those families - Speech Link
8: infection control in day centres for those with learning disabilities and autism is extremely challenging - Speech Link
7. Mental Disorder: Autism and Learning Disabilities
05/11/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: Health Secretary promised to detach autism and learning difficulties from mental health legislation. That - Speech Link
2: Government are committed to ensuring that people with learning disabilities and autistic people have the best - Speech Link
3: friend has rightly highlighted, neither autism nor learning difficulties are mental health conditions. These - Speech Link
4: of Psychiatry last week, proposing that learning disability and autism should be removed from the Mental - Speech Link
5: Government accept completely that autism and learning disability are not mental disorders. The question is - Speech Link
8. People with Learning Disabilities
06/06/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: taking to address the treatment of people with learning disabilities and complex needs in in-patient units; - Speech Link
2: undercover filming appeared to show patients with learning disabilities being mocked, intimidated and restrained - Speech Link
9. People with Disabilities: Reporting Abuse
17/06/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: adequacy of the support received by people with a disability when they report any form of abuse to appropriate - Speech Link
2: children, young people and adults with a learning disability or autism, their families and carers. We - Speech Link
3: Service, disabled people and those with a learning disability are at a higher risk of crime, particularly - Speech Link
4: issue: she is absolutely right that those with learning disabilities are more at risk from hate crimes - Speech Link
5: that there are various ways in which people with disability might be prevented from reporting abuse in the - Speech Link
10. Health Inequality: Autism and Learning Disabilities
10/05/2018 - Grand Committee
1: necessary by the ongoing poor treatment of people with learning difficulties in the health service. The report - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Mr Mark Harper MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 5056.
Email: mark.harper.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
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Email: matthew.harrison@mencap.org.uk
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