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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Beyond GDP insights, UK measures of National Well-being: June 2026.

Office for National Statistics (ONS); 2026.

Exploring quality of life and progress beyond GDP in the UK, drawing on the 59 national well-being measures. Latest release 8 June 2026.
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New Learning Disabilities Bulletin


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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