SUPPORT: (Left to right) : Gillian Marshall-Dyson, funding and projects co-ordinator at Signature, Lindsay Foster, chief operating officer of Signature and Norman Eric Heaviside, Provincial Grand Master for the Province of Durham
The author of a review into the care of people with learning disabilities in England has reported an "absence of any tangible progress" since he issued it. What do those affected think about this news?
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Today NHS England pledged urgent action on over-medication of people with a learning disability. You can read their announcment here. Dan Scorer, our Head of Policy and Viv Cooper, Chief Executive at the Challenging Behaviour Foundation have responded to the news: "The research findings issued today by the NHS shine a light on the shocking scale of the inappropriate use of medication. It is simply outrageous that up to 35,000 adults with a learning disability are being prescribed an antipsychotic, an antidepressant or both without appropriate clinical justification.
A disabled campaigner who is battling to protect the rights of wheelchair-users to travel on buses has won permission for his appeal to be heard by the Supreme Court.
Three disabled peers have asked a panel of senior civil servants why the government appears to have failed to enforce the Equality Act since it became law five years ago.
