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A disabled activist has told MPs that the government’s failure to replace the broken system of crisis support means sectioning, detention and abuse in assessment and treatment units (ATUs) remains a constant threat to her and other autistic people. Alexis Quinn […]
Autistic campaigners have described the decision of singer-songwriter Sia to cast a non-disabled performer to play an Autistic character in her new film as “insulting” and “demeaning”. The trailer for Music (pictured), released by Sia last Thursday, has caused frustration and […]
Autistic people have told the care regulator about the “undignified and inhumane” care they have been subjected to in mental health units, including the frequent and traumatising use of segregation and restraint in England. They spoke to the Care Quality Commission […]
Campaigners are calling on the government to abandon its plan to deport a young autistic man to Jamaica, a country he has not visited since he was four. The Home Office had planned to detain Osime Brown – who also has […]
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed three years of funding that will help move people with learning difficulties and autistic people out of mental health hospitals and into homes in the community. The £62 million (£20 million this […]
“Shocking” new figures showing a huge rise in deaths of people with learning difficulties in the care system are probably “the tip of the iceberg”, but still show how disabled people have become “cannon fodder” during the pandemic, say campaigners. The […]
New research shows that more than four in ten people who have been told to “shield” at home because they are “extremely vulnerable” to COVID-19 have lost at least a fifth of their income since the pandemic crisis began. The research, […]
A disability charity which campaigns for an end to discrimination against autistic people in the workplace unfairly dismissed an autistic member of its own staff, an employment tribunal has found. Dave Gregson was employed as a support worker by United Response […]
Disabled campaigners have welcomed the human rights watchdog’s decision to begin legal action against the government over its repeated failure to address the “distressing and horrific” treatment of people with learning difficulties and autistic people in mental health hospitals. The Equality […]
Staff at an academy school repeatedly forced autistic pupils as young as five into a tiny cupboard and then held the door shut after they had “meltdowns” in class, a school has admitted. Parents of three of the pupils are now […]