{"id":31092,"date":"2026-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=31092"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:44:42","slug":"attachment-and-caregiving-in-families-with-parental-learning-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2026\/07\/10\/attachment-and-caregiving-in-families-with-parental-learning-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Attachment and caregiving in families with parental learning disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Parents with learning difficulties often face significant challenges that contribute to their overall disadvantage. Research shows these parents are over-represented in child welfare systems, with international estimates suggesting that 40-60% of their children are removed from their care at some point.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While safeguarding concerns remain central, these figures raise important questions about how parenting capacity is assessed and how parents are supported. We explore this further in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchinpractice.org.uk%2Fall%2Fnews-views%2F2026%2Fjune%2Fattachment-and-caregiving-in-families-with-parental-learning-disabilities%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAcademic.Library%40lscft.nhs.uk%7Cafe33ff765f542ae4ba208decba00646%7C0418b648afb0430094ba33f2b09eb31f%7C1%7C0%7C639172085336101734%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=rBNfLPELudXL%2B3sxmgOTzCWiMtfp1JxPAjae8w6iRjM%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><strong>our latest blog<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;from the Working Together with Parents Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchinpractice.org.uk%2Fall%2Fnews-views%2F2026%2Fjune%2Fattachment-and-caregiving-in-families-with-parental-learning-disabilities%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAcademic.Library%40lscft.nhs.uk%7Cafe33ff765f542ae4ba208decba00646%7C0418b648afb0430094ba33f2b09eb31f%7C1%7C0%7C639172085336121782%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=4SGBwwlQZ4%2BkCD1QxduSTefhNcuggQvjH2IUin8w6xA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Attachment and caregiving in families with parental learning disabilities | Research in Practice<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from Research in Practice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents with learning difficulties often face significant challenges that contribute to their overall disadvantage. Research shows these parents are over-represented in child welfare systems, with international estimates suggesting that 40-60% of their children are removed from their care at some point. While safeguarding concerns remain central, these figures raise important questions about how parenting capacity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2026\/07\/10\/attachment-and-caregiving-in-families-with-parental-learning-disabilities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attachment and caregiving in families with parental learning disabilities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89,125,223],"tags":[2041,4034,8037,4985,4986],"class_list":["post-31092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-learning-disabilities","category-research","tag-discrimination","tag-observation","tag-parents-and-children","tag-research","tag-research-and-practice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31093,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31092\/revisions\/31093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}