Learning Disabilities Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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In this edition:

  • Depression and Anxiety Risk in Children With Intellectual Developmental Disorder
  • Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: final report
  • No wrong door? A review
  • What is the sepsis Modern Service Framework?
  • What the new mental health, learning disability and autism dashboard tells us
  • How Parents of Special Needs Kids Can Balance Career and Caregiving
  • Plus much more

20 October 2026 – Evidently Better

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Learning Disabilities Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

All credit for this bulletin goes to our co-workers over at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

In this edition:

  • Sleep Health in Adults with Intellectual Disability: Recent Advances and Persistent Evidence Gaps
  • Unpaid carers action plan: recognise, refer, reach (easy read)
  • Co-chair Response to Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference speech
  • “Healthy Lives Together” – Learning Disability Professional Senate Listen & Learn Event, 2026
  • Advocacy initiative for black children with Down’s Syndrome wins award
  • Mencap celebrates 80th birthday
  • Plus much more

7 October 2026 – Evidently Better

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Learning Disabilities Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

All credit for this bulletin goes to our co-workers over at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

In this edition:

  • Cancer prevention and screening for people with intellectual disabilities in Europe: a systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice
  • Developing Peer-Mentored Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents With Mild-To-Borderline Intellectual Disability and Anxiety: A Qualitative Study
  • ‘Let’s Just Hope for the Best’: A Photovoice Study Exploring the Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions on Children With Intellectual Disabilities in the UK
  • Plus much more

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Learning Disabilities Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

All credit goes to our coworkers over at Mersey Care for making this bulletin.

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

credit to our coworkers over at Mersey Care

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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In this edition:

  • Psychopathology from childhood to adolescence in children with and without Mild Intellectual Disability (MID): a comparison across three MID operationalizations
  • Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry Report Published
  • Falling nurse numbers leave people with learning disabilities behind
  • Lived Experience of Pica: a parent and sister’s perspective
  • New three-year learning disabilities and autism plan to “transform” support
  • What four things are carers telling us about health and social care?
  • Plus much more