Category: Learning Disabilities

Minimum standards for keyworking services for autistic children and young people and children and young people with a learning disability.

NHS England; 2026.

[These minimum standards support integrated care boards (ICBs) as they commission keyworking services for autistic children and young people and children and young people with a learning disability who are at risk of an inpatient mental health hospital admission or who are currently in an inpatient setting.]
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Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Conditions bulletin

from NHS England

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Learning Disabilities Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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In this edition:

  • Integrated Supports: Perspectives from Adults with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities
  • The effect of first aid training on first aid knowledge levels among parents of children with special needs
  • People with severe intellectual disability are dying 24 years younger than the general population
  • Insulin self-management leading to harm in people with learning disabilities
  • Missing from the learning disability register, missing from care
  • CAPBS publish new paper: The need to clearly distinguish and separate Physical Intervention training from Positive Behaviour Support training in the UK
  • Plus much more
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Learning Disabilities Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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In this edition:

  • Assessment of Communication in People with Severe to Profound Intellectual Disabilities: Best Practice Tools and Options
  • Cancer screening in people with intellectual disability: a scoping review of participation, barriers, facilitators, and improvement strategies within the EUCanScreen initiative
  • Supporting vaccination for SEND children and young people
  • DNA-CPR orders more likely for adults with profound learning disabilities
  • Whitefield School: Safeguarding Practice Review Published
  • Major expansion of community mental health support across England
  • Plus much more
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Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Conditions bulletin

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Learning from Independent Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews in 2024 and 2025.

Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2026.

https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/icetr/2024-2025
[This report shares findings from the IC(E)TRs carried out between May 2024 and November 2025. It explores the practices that supported autistic people and people with a learning disability to leave long-term segregation and discusses the barriers that prevent this from happening.]
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Learning Disabilities

By Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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In this edition:

  • Supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability to live well in their communities
  • Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment: interim report
  • “A way out”: CQC-led reviews support autistic people and people with a learning disability out of long-term segregation
  • NHS England community living guidance for people with learning disabilities
  • Report Launch – Building a Bridge: How to end the cliff edge of transition between children’s and adult services for young people with learning disabilities in England
  • Care England launches new choking prevention guide for people with learning disabilities
  • Plus much more
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Implementing system-wide positive behaviour support through capable environments: a practice-based evaluation.

Knight J. Tizard Learning Disability Review 2026;31(2): 138–150.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the feasibility, acceptability and early outcomes of implementing a system-wide PBS model, using service-based evaluation data from a pilot. The model targeted organisational domains within the capable environments (CE) framework as a universal-level support. A pre–post, mixed-methods design was used with two UK-based adult IDD service providers.

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Implementing skills-based treatment in naturalistic contexts.

Price H. Tizard Learning Disability Review 2026;31(2):127–137.

Where children develop behaviours that challenge (BtC), these can affect their, and their family’s, quality of life. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of Practical functional assessment (PFA) and Skills-based treatment (SBT), delivered in naturalistic settings, in the United Kingdom. The quantitative data indicated that each of the children developed skills relating to communication, tolerance and cooperation.

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health & Learning Disabilities current awareness bulletin

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