Here we will publish from time to time useful information and news about services, articles and information for people with learning disabilities.

Learning Disability Training Courses for 2007

Disability Discrimination

The Learning Disability Web Site is concerned about discrimination, particularly any form of discrimnation. We have heard about adults with learning disabilities who decide to move another area to live being declined health care services from local services because they are considered to be out of city placements and therefore not eligible for services. Do able bodied people who move house from one part of the country to another receive the same discrimination, we don't think so.

Please let us have your views about this and please sign our guest book to express your concerns. Guest Book

Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)

The CRB is here and all care providers should be aware that your staff need to be given police checks. These checks are for cautions and criminal convictions. We understand that some people who have committed serious abuse upon adults with learning disabilities they are finding jobs outside the care sector in order to fool prospective employers into thinking they have no criminal convictions or cautions. From a recent case record an employee of a care provider found this to be the case and that the person they employed had not only a criminal record but were being investigated by social services and the police for further acts of abuse against adults with learning disabilities. So, protect your service users and remember to carry out your enhanced CRB check and ask prospective employees at interview whether or not they have criminal convictions or cautions, and don't forget to ask whether or not they are being investigated by social services or the police?For more information then visit their web site at crb.gov.uk

Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) 

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The Commission for Social Care Inspection brings together the work previously undertaken by the Social Services Inspectorate, the SSI/ Audit Commission joint review team and the social care functions of the National Care Standards Commission.

The Inspectorate will:Carry out local inspections of all social care organisations - public, private, and voluntary - against national standards and publish reports; Register services that meet national minimum standards; Carry out inspections of local social service authorities; Publish an annual report to Parliament on national progress on social care and an analysis of where resources have been spent; Validate all published performance assessment statistics on social care; Publish the star ratings for social services authorities.

You can also find the most recent up todate CSCI Reports on Residential and Nursing Homes