learning disabilities

The death rate for people aged 18 to 34 with learning disabilities in England was 30 times higher than the rate in the same age group without disabilities, researchers found.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has made a legal challenge against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care over the repeated failure to move people with learning disabilities and autism into appropriate accommodation.

In 2018, women with learning disabilities died 27 years earlier and men 23 years, when compared to the general population.

The use of pain inducing techniques and solitary confinement of children in detention must be banned, says a new report by the UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee.