An independent commission has been launched by the government to help rebuild the adult social care system to meet the ...

Canadian researchers have identified the DDX53 gene as a contributor to autism, which opens up a whole new area of ...

Football legends Gordon Smith and Billy Davies have been announced as new ambassadors for the learning disability charity ...

The Education Committee has announced a new major inquiry which will focus on finding solutions to the crisis in SEND provision.

A new free app has been launched by autism research charity Autistica to offer helpful tips to autistic people, their families and professionals who work with autistic people. The Tips Hub was ...

An NHS Trust in Yorkshire has been praised by NHS England for leading the way in work to clear the elective care waiting lists for people with a learning disability. Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS ...

Almost a third of neurodivergent employees (29%) have experienced discrimination in the workplace, according to new research by Autistica. The research is published in the first ever Neurodiversity ...

Disability Rights UK have described a Channel 4 programme, Britain’s Benefits Scandal: Dispatches, as an “insult to the millions of Disabled people on the poverty line.” Fraser Nelson, who led the ...

Sir Norman Lamb is the Chair of South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust, a specialist Mental Health Trust. He was the Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk from 2001 to 2019 and was appointed ...

A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Trust has examined the barriers to work for people on work-related disability… ...

Disability Rights UK have described a Channel 4 programme, Britain's Benefits Scandal: Dispatches, as an “insult to… ...