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We are pleased to introduce a guest blog by Neil Crowther who is an independent consultant focusing on the implementation of equality and human rights in the UK and internationally, with a particular interest in the rights of disabled people

How local learning disability communities rate themselves: The Joint Health and Social Care Learning Disability Self-Assessment Framework

Paid work is what most disabled people say they want. Personal budgets are the government’s desired mechanism to achieve change in social care (and increasingly healthcare).

We are pleased to introduce a guest blog on co-production by Siraaj Nadat, a Project Officer at Changing Our Lives.

We are pleased to introduce a guest blog about attitudes to ageing by Dorothy Runnicles who is an NDTi Associate & a well known campaigner for older people's rights.

The Green Light Toolkit to improve mental health services for People with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism was launched by the Department for Health at Learning Disabilities Today in London on 28th November 2013.

Why is it that, despite what people tell us they want, most services continue to insist on separating people’s lives into groups that are defined by the diagnostic, disability or age label we have given them?

If we reflect on the main challenges that less than ten years ago prompted personalisation as a policy concept, they were about: people needing more control over their lives and services,

I cannot sleep without challenging the views that Rosa Monkton shared with Lorraine Kelly on TV

Both the Francis Report on the neglect, abuse and deaths of predominantly older people in Mid-Staffordshire hospital and this week’s CQC report on wider hospital failure telling a sorry tale.