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Standards for learning disability and autism training for health and care staff will improve as government launches a consultation on a draft code of practice.

• Updated: 27 June 2023

Government’s 'Building the Right Support Action Plan’ combines work across government and public services so people can live independently in their community.

• Updated: 14 July 2022

Every inpatient with a learning disability or autism in a mental health hospital will have their case reviewed over the next 12 months.

• Updated: 5 November 2019

The measures include a new working group for learning disabilities and autism, and funding specialist advocates to review the care of patients in segregation or long-term seclusion.

• Updated: 21 May 2019

Public Health England study finds people with learning disabilities are regularly prescribed psychiatric drugs without a recorded diagnosis.

• Updated: 14 July 2015