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People with Learning disabilities- An ageing population

Noelle Blackman | 30-Oct-07
Just like the rest of the population, people with learning disabilities are living longer. This means that they are more likely to experience bereavements and become aware of their own mortality. They also have an increased risk of developing dementia, especially people with Down's syndrome, and other illnesses with a long dying phase. These experiences can cause anxiety for all involved, and this is what Respond's Elder's project aims to address.

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The Hertford History Project

David O’Driscoll | 26-Jun-07

The Hertford History Project, and the associated Learning Disability History Website, were created to provide a historical overview of institutions for people with learning disabilities. Here David O’Driscoll, the man behind the project, explains why he believes that recording and learning from this history is so important. 

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Getting through

by Debbee Arthur | 15-Mar-06
In 1953 a young vicar and founder of Samaritans, Chad Varah, working in a City of London parish, set up what he called a "999 for the suicidal". He was, in his own words, "a man willing to listen, with a base and an emergency telephone". From the first call made on 2 November that year helplines were born

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Three into one does go

| 15-Mar-06
People often come into social care aiming to make a difference. But those who choose the voluntary sector as their vehicle often get distracted by "engine trouble" - caused, usually, by lack of funding - and take their eyes off the route.

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Past masters

by Graham Hopkins | 15-Mar-06
The history of people with learning difficulties is a largely hidden and uncomfortable one. However, a project in Hertfordshire is looking back in order to move forward.

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Therapy brings self-control

by Graham Hopkins | 15-Mar-06
Although there are many different types of psychotherapy, the one thing they all have in common is that they are "talking treatments" based on a therapist and client talking to each other and sometimes doing things together.

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Special Investigation: How police are letting down people with learning difficulties

by Sally Gillen | 15-Mar-06
Campaigners have renewed calls for better training of police in how to deal with people with learning difficulties after exclusive research by Community Care has revealed that in some forces less than 1 per cent of officers have specialist knowledge, reports Sally Gillen.

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Better links need to be made between children's and adults' protection lists

by Rebecca Seden | 15-Mar-06
Much of the recent coverage about unsuitable people working with vulnerable groups, seems to have been focused on those working with children.

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Legal Action group - Access to Justice for Vulnerable Defendants

by Rebecca Seden | 01-Mar-06
Rebecca Seden, policy and campaigns officer at three charities, Voice UK, Ann Craft Trust and Respond, argues that, in order to increases access to justice in the criminal justice system, defendants with learning disabilities should be entitled to the same special measures that victims and witnesses with learning disabilities are currently entitled to in court.

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Launch of Respond Elder's Project

'Positive Images' Learning Disability Practice | 09-Nov-05
Just like the rest of the population, people with learning disabilities are living longer. This means that they are more likely to experience bereavements and become aware of their own mortality. They also have an increased risk of developing dementia, especially people with Down's syndrome, and other illnesses with a long dying phase. These experiences can cause anxiety for all involved, and this is what Respond's Elder's project aims to address.

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