Happy New Year from everyone at Oxleas!
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 13th January 2019
Stories of the month!
Enter the SCLD Learning Disability Awards 2019
Community nurse Rebecca Chester recognised alongside former CNO in New Year’s honours list
Outstanding care home in Wisbech praised for their ‘respectful, kind and compassionate’ care
Derbyshire care home rated 'outstanding' by inspectors
A Bullied Teen with Autism Makes a Haunting Video of His Experiences
As a parent of two kids with autism, I've learned how much attitudes have changed
Get the Tissues Before Hearing This Young Man Explain What It’s Like to Have a Brother with Autism
Homeless Man With Autism Gets His Saddest Birthday Wish Fulfilled
More Funding For Changing Places Toilets Will Make A Huge Difference To Disabled People And Those Who Care For Them
The time has not yet come to stop talking about hospital passports
Why This Mom Adopted Five Kids With Down Syndrome
Book of the month
Easy read
Mencap - Our privacy policy
Events
Throughout January 2019 in various locations
What do staff need to know to support people with autism
29th January 2019, Leeds
Autism and Co-occurring Conditions Conference 2019
6th February 2019 - Birmingham
Masterclass on Autism and gender dysphoria
11th February 2019 - ExeterSupporting People with a Learning Disability through Loss and Bereavement
15th February 2019, London
‘Impact of Trauma and Attachment on the Lives of People with Learning Disabilities’
6th March 2019, London
Transforming end of life care together
7th & 8th March 2019, Birmingham
10th Anniversary Autism Professionals Conference
12th March 2019, Manchester
Learning Disabilities and Autism: Promoting Positive Outcomes
During March and April 2019, Birmingham and London
The Foundations of Good Support for People with Learning Disabilities
25th April 2018, Birmingham
Positive Commitment 2019
25th - 26th April 2019, Birmingham
Together, we are better - Positive Choices
30th April 2019, then every Tuesday afternoon for 8 weeks, London
Research training course for people with intellectual disabilities
23rd - 25th May 2019, Barcelona, Spain
European Congress on Mental Health in Intellectual Disability
Guidance
How CQC care home inspections work and what the ratings mean
This Ain’t Your Average Autism Myth-Busting Video!
News involving autistic people and those with learning disabilities
£1.5m L’Arche accommodation block begins to take shape - 29th December, The Press and Journal
‘A sense of comfort’: Library, Disabled Students’ Program unite to help students with disabilities - University of California
Belfast Trust releases images of seclusion room at scandal-hit Muckamore Abbey - 18th December, Belfast Te;egrah
Campaign should promote staff with learning disabilities - 4th December, Third Force News
Care home sector 'needs a strong whistleblowing culture' - 31st December,
Carlisle Mencap create film showing 50 years of progress for people with learning difficulties - 24th December, News & Star
Children and adults to receive training at India's first autism township in Kolkata: All about it - 28th November, India Today
CQC to probe restraint and seclusion of people with mental health problems and learning disabilities - 4th December, Community Care
Congratulations to our 2018 NT Awards winners - 7th December, Nursing Times
Emergency mental health targets introduced by 2020 - 7th January 2019, HSJ
Family's anger over detention of woman with severe autism - 30th November, BBC
Family of Oliver McGowan 'disgusted' at Bristol CCG attempts to 'avoid' question into son's death - 18th December, Bristol Live
Foxes Academy celebrates unprecedented year of success - 21st December, Somerset's Heartbeat
Government review to improve the lives of autistic children - 5th December, Gov.UK
How 1 cafe is helping people with autism break into the workforce -14th November, Today
I have seen so many horrors…but this is barbarism: IAN BIRRELL on the ‘cruel and destructive’ conditions children with learning disabilities have been kept in around Britain - 22nd December, Daily Mail
'Just because you have a learning disability doesn’t mean you can’t be a successful parent' - 19th December, Milford Mecury
Learning disabilities and autism: stronger human rights protection in ATUs? - 5th December, Parliament UK
Life appears to be cheap if you have learning difficulties - 26th December, The Times
Life with autistic brother translated to the stage in Chichester - 7th January 2019, Chichester Observer
Line 18: 'My autistic son deserves a life but he's locked up' - 8th November, Sky News
Lottery funding boost for second Carrick learning disability parade - 28th December, Carrick Times
Matt Hancock orders review into over-prescribing in the NHS - 8th December, Gov.UK
Mind the Gap’s Staging Change project creates opportunities - 7th December, Entertainment Focus
Ministers act to increase "Changing Places" toilets for severely disabled people - 24th December, GOV.UK
MPs to investigate the scandal of youngsters with autism and learning disabilities being locked up like criminals in psychiatric units - 8th December, Daily Mail
Muckamore Abbey: Hospital situation shocking, says Mencap - 7th January 2019, BBC
Muckamore Abbey Hospital: Five more incidents of abuse of vulnerable man discovered on CCTV - 20th December, Irish Times
'My life is just as important as everybody else’s': meet the disability leaders - 3rd December, The Guardian
New flats to help Isle of Wight people with learning difficulties live independently - 19th December, County Press
NHS wants to ditch overuse of drugs to treat autism - 12th January 2019, Echo
NHS to look into deaths of 100,000 mental health patients a year - 27th November, The Guardian
People with learning difficulties in Cumbria don’t feel they have control over their lives - report - 18th Decembe, News and Star
Police investigation into Sandy care home resident’s injury - 23rd November, Biggleswade Today
Priory hospital staff forged records after death of patient, 16 - 27th November, The Times
Senior north Cumbria health chief believes action on learning disabilities is needed - 19th December, News and Star
Single mum slams passengers who IGNORED her 19-year-old autistic son's screams for help when he lost his carer on the London Underground - 5th December, Daily Mail
The government needs to do more to prove it cares about people with autism - 6th January 2019 INews
THE LOVEABLES When does The Undateables series 10 start, how can I apply and have been any proposals or weddings? - 3rd January 2019, The Sun
The NHS 10-year plan: what we already know - 6th January 2019, The Guardian
The reality of families living with autism – and why their hopes for major changes look set to be dashed - 14th December, Wales On Line
The shop where it's OK to be different - 3rd December, BBC
'They took her teeth without telling me' - 6th January 2019, BBC
Trust apologises for 'missed opportunity' to detect twisted bowel that killed man - 2nd January 2019, Shropshire Star
Two more staff suspended at Muckamore Abbey hospital over abuse scandal as crisis forces closure of intensive care unit - 22nd December, The Irish News
Whistleblower nurse who lifted lid on autism abuse scandal reveals how she felt powerless for 12 years - until she saw one victim being so violently restrained by NHS staff they broke his NECK - 12th January 2019, Daily Mail
You Can Have Tea With 'Game of Thrones' Star Kit Harington for a Good Cause - 6th January 2019, Comic Book
Reports
Modernising the Mental Health Act – final report from the independent review
Research
Meta-analysis highlights important challenges in cognitive processing for adults with ASD
People with autism sometimes give ambiguous looks
The hospital provision of reasonable adjustments for people with learning disabilities: Findings from Freedom of Information requests - information for practice
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