Welcome! The purpose of this bulletin is to keep you in touch with news from the learning disability world in a monthly digest. We hope to include information on the latest policy and research along with easy read information. If you have any requests for information or if you want to share with the Oxleas learning disability community please send them to Steve Hardy or Jill Davies.
All links are written in blue or grey and worked on the 20th November 2018.
Stories of the month!
Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training - autism and learning disability training survey
Interview: 'Oliver McGowan's name should be given to autism and learning disability training'
Mandatory learning disability training for NHS staff to include autism
Get your tickets here!
The autistic teenager making video games to show players what Asperger's is really like
What makes a good self advocacy project - a toolkit
Watchdog praises care home on outskirts of Leeds that helps people with learning disabilities 'achieve their hopes and dreams'
Out of the Shadows: The untold story of people with learning disabilities in prison
Blogs
A life transformed: Karen’s journey
Access All Areas: Ellen's story
After Autistic College Student Was Assaulted, She Developed a Card to Tell Police About Her Disorder
Demonstrating the value of an acute Learning Disabilities liaison service within Hywel Dda University Health Board
End of life training for social care providers
Farouk leaves hospital
From multiple ATU admissions to independent living – this is Michael’s story
How the right support changed John’s life for the better
Intelligent robots could prove to be a boon for autism therapies
Learning disability nursing is everybody’s field
Learning Disability Policy, Practice, and the Support Worker
Leaving an Assessment and Treatment Unit – Alan’s journey
Mom Writes Open Letter To Stranger Who Said She Shouldn’t Bring Her Autistic Son Out In Public
My Autism Makes Me Different, Not Less
Scottish nurses empowered to help autistic people cope with change
Swapping restraint for Positive Behaviour Support
The benefits of employing a person with a learning disability
The People’s Parliament – Raising the Voices of People with Learning Disabilities
Transforming Care Agenda – Rachel leaves hospital
What makes you decide to move on?
Why we’re challenging behaviour
Books
Learning Disability and Human Rights: A practitioner's guide
Mental Health in Intellectual Disabilities 5th edition
Sexuality and Learning Disabilities (2nd edition)
Courses
MindEd Learning Disability On line course
LeDeR e-learning reviewer training platform is now live
Understanding Autism - an on line course from The Tizard Centre
Easy Read
GP online services – easy read guides
Events
23rd November 2018 - Plymouth
Supporting Medication, Train the Trainer
28th November 2018 - Chesterfield
Supporting Medication: Train the Trainer
7th December 2018 - Launcestor
Mental Capacity Act & Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Awareness
6th February 2019 - Birmingham
Masterclass on Autism and gender dysphoria
11th February 2019 - Exeter
Supporting People with a Learning Disability through Loss and Bereavement
25th - 26th April 2019, Birmingham
Together, we are better - Positive Choices
23rd - 25th May 2019, Barcelona, Spain
European Congress on Mental Health in Intellectual Disability
Guidance and resources
Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews - The role of health and social care providers
Constipation and learning disabilities grab guide
Justice for LB Toolkit
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill Part 2
NICE: Decision-making and mental capacity
Suspicion of sepsis dashboard
Video: Sepsis and people with learning disabilities
What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder? Here's Everything You Should Know About It
What makes a good self advocacy project - a toolkit
Reasonable adjustments for people with a learning disability
News involving those with learning disabilities and autistic people
40 people died in 'barbaric' secure hospitals the government pledged would close - 30th October, Sky News
A wall built to keep people out’: the cruel, bureaucratic maze of children’s services - 1st November, The Guardian
All of these institutions should close - 5th November, The Times
Bullied Boy With Autism Writes Amazing Letter To Anne Hegerty In The Jungle - 21st November, Unilad
Call to close 'often disgraceful' institutions for people with learning disabilities - 5th November, Care Appointments
Continued fall in health visitors, school and learning disabilities nurses - 31st October, Nursing Times
Councils warn that costs of caring for adults with learning disabilities could increase by almost £2bn by 2025 - 19th November, Open Access Government
Dad of autistic girl sees off Walsall Council gag order - 13th October, BBC
Everton Honoured With Autism Award - 10th November, Everton FC
Family launch compensation bid after son is left needing round-the-clock care following birth at Grimsby hospital - 9th November, Grimsby Live
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald's Eddie Redmayne thinks Newt Scamander is on the autism spectrum - 15th November, Digital Spy
Firms cash in on psychiatric care crisis - 5th November, The Times
Government says 'sleep-in' care workers aren't entitled to minimum wage - 8th November, My Homecare
Hancock announces ‘seclusion and segregation’ review… after 70 years of concerns - 8th November, Disability News
Health checks for young people with learning disabilities could detect and prevent longer term problems - 24th October, East Anglian Daily Times
Help for medics to aid cancer patients with learning disabilities - 30th October, The National
How do you solve the trickiest problems in the workplace? Employ more autistic people - 9th October, The Guardian
Hull man with autism delighted as he 'finally fits in' after getting his first job - 9th November, Hull Live
'Hundreds of pupils spend week in school isolation booths' - 12th November, BBC
'I feel really bad when I hurt my mum' - 13th November, BBC
'I went from being a teacher with a first class degree to losing my power of speech': New mother reveals how she was drugged and locked up in solitary confinement until she became suicidal after she was diagnosed with autism - 3rd November, Daily Mail
'It's torture': critics step up bid to stop US school using electric shocks on children - 16th November, The Guardian
Justification for Liberty Protection Safeguards care home plan unclear as bill enters critical phase - 13th November, Community Care
Labour grandee Harriet Harman blasts the sectioning of autistic patients in NHS-funded psychiatric units - 18th November, Daily Mail
Learning disability nurse appointed chief executive of West Midlands trust - 12th November, Nursing Times
New money to help domestic abuse victims - 18th November, Daily Echo
NHS Tayside issues apology after diabetic man dies aged 38 - 29th October, The Courier
NHS trust apologises after patient dies at Royal Blackburn Hospital - 17th November, Bolton News
One hoax phone call, 12 years behind bars: the prisoners with learning disabilities - 27th October, The Guardian
Patients can spend years in Scotland’s hospitals due to delayed discharge, Mental Welfare Commission finds - 4th November, The Times
People will learning disabilities will have the right to vote in Denmark - 27th October, The Mayor
Police break silence over concerns about impact of Muckamore allegations on families - 17th November, The Irish News
Praise for community scheme to help vulnerable people - 18th November, The Press
Purple Tuesday: 'Shopping with a disability can be humiliating' - 13th November, The Guardian
Questions need to be answered over closure of Six Acres learning disability centre in Taunton - 11th November, County Gazette
Ramsgate: Ethan Boffin told to prove he is autistic to keep his benefits - 14th November, Kent On Line
Rebuilding the learning disability workforce is crucial to end appalling injustice - 9 November, Nursing Times
Revealed: National plans to transform learning disabilities care branded as 'failing' by nurses - 24th October, Nursing Times
Review of 1,400 patients after 'inappropriate' treatment concerns - 30th October, HSJ
Review ordered into 'barbaric' treatment of patients with autism and learning disabilities - 4th November, Sky News
Richard Madeley shocks viewers with autism questions towards Undateables star - 2nd November, Cambridgeshire Live
Rob Greig: ‘We are going backwards on learning disability – there needs to be a fresh narrative’ - 24th October, Community Care
Scandal of the autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement: Hundreds of children are being held in appalling conditions and routinely abused in secluded padded cells - 27th October, Daily Mail
Secure hospital patients could be vulnerable to abuse - 1st November, Sky News
Shut away and threatened like animals: Families tell how their children with autism and learning disabilities were locked away in secret institutions for years after they asked for help - 27th October, Daily Mail
Social services bosses criticised over case of mother with learning disabilities - 9th November, Care Appointments
Students at Ireland's first drama school for people with intellectual disabilities to graduate today - 15th November, The Journal ie
Successful project helps group with learning disabilities to find voluntary work - 14th November, The Press and Journal
The Guardian view on life expectancy stalling: a political choice - 5th November, The Guardian
The Human Rights Act Can Transform Lives Without Going To Court - 9th November, Rights Info
This Santa's grotto is being adapted for an Autism-friendly experience for children - 3rd November, Journal ie
Two in five people with learning disabilities not diagnosed in childhood - 5th November, The Guardian
Urgent checks after fake psychiatrist practised in NHS for 22 years - 19th November, Sky News
WARD 'SCANDAL' Private firms ‘earning millions treating NHS patients in sub-standard psychiatric hospitals’ - 5th November, The Sun
'We must make visible the work of learning disability nurses’ - 8th November, Nursing Times
Woman with severe learning disabilities traumatised after bedroom burgled - 4th November, Armaghi
Young people are being locked away for years because they have autism and learning disabilities. Some never make it out - 28th October, I News
Young people with special needs 'being failed in 44% of areas in England' - 24th October, The Guardian
Reports
A Fair, Supportive Society: Summary Report
Research
Men and women really do think differently, say scientists who also claim autism is an extreme version of the 'male brain'
Off-label prescribing of psychotropic drugs to adults on the autism spectrum could be exposing individuals to harm
Over half a million take part in the largest ever study of autism
Oxford Biodynamics launches collaboration to improve autism diagnosis techniques
Why early diagnosis of autism should lead to early intervention
See you in December!
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