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Families wait for action on segregation

Families are waiting to hear if health secretary Matt Hancock will keep to his pledge that every person segregated on mental health wards will have an independent review. Hancock made the pledge after a critical report by watchdog the Care...

Abuse ‘endemic across care system’

Abuse revealed by the BBC’s Panorama at a long-stay hospital for people with autism and learning disabilities is endemic across the care system. That’s the view of Sir Stephen Bubb. He wrote a key report urging an end to hospital care...

Families fight detention ‘scandal’

Families have launched a legal campaign to end the “national scandal” of people with autism and learning disabilities being detained under the Mental Health Act. The parents are concerned that the Mental Health Act is being wrongly used. They say...

Nearly 50 dead in long-stay hospitals

Nearly 50 people have died in long-stay hospitals caring for people with autism and learning disabilities, it has emerged. Care minister Caroline Dinenage revealed there have been 45 deaths in the hospitals, known as assessment and treatment units (ATUs), since...

Conference debates latest treatments

Leading figures in autism are gathering for a conference on the latest developments in treating the condition. Thinking Autism’s conference will hear from experts on a wide variety of topics. These will include cannabis, diet, sensory processing, epilepsy, mitochondrial disorders,...

£18m autism centre will transform lives

A stunning £18 million autism centre has opened, aiming to transform the lives of thousands of children. The Caudwell International Children’s Centre (CICC) intends to dramatically cut waiting times for assessments. Therapy services as well as assessments The centre, based at Keele...

Government gets tough on exclusions

Schools will be made accountable for pupils they exclude and there will be a clampdown on informal exclusions, say education chiefs. The Government announced the measures after the publication of the Timpson Review of exclusions. The review by former children’s...

Ireland ’denies right to education’

Families in Ireland say children are being denied their basic right to an education because of a chronic shortage of special needs places. Parents complain of a lack of places in special schools and mainstream settings for children with autism....

Disruptive behaviour may be biological

Researchers say they have identified a possible biological cause of disruptive behaviours. Scientists at Yale University, in the US, say a key mechanism that regulates emotion functions differently in the brains of children with challenging behaviours. More than one in...

Scheme revolutionises care for adults

A social care scheme is revolutionising how care is offered for vulnerable adults. The Shared Lives scheme matches vulnerable adults with approved carers for support. Under the scheme, carers can look after people in their own homes. ‘Natural environment’ With...

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