News archive 2009
December 2009: Supporting people with profound and multiple learning disabilities to be involved in their communities
December 2009: Involving people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in decision making
November 2009: PMLD Network responds to Social Care Green Paper
October 2009: Take part in the Protection of body shape (Postural Care) survey
September 2009: Have your say on the Social Care Green Paper
September 2009: University of Kent specialist to review services for adults with profound and multiple intellectual disabilities
September 2009: Ed Balls commissions review into SEN teacher training
September 2009: Specialist curriculum available for pupils with PMLD
September 2009: Funding at breaking point
August 2009: Success ALL the way for PMLD students
August 2009: Hearing from the Seldom Heard - a new resource
July 2009: New transition guide for parents and carers
June 2009: Carers forced to change disabled loved-ones on dirty toilet floors, new Mencap research reveals
June 2009: The PMLD Network calls for partnership boards to include those with the most complex needs
June 2009: Seeing Better Together: optometrists learning more about people with learning disabilities
May 2009: Calls for more consistent delivery of short breaks services
April 2009: ‘Distressing failures’ led to deaths of people with a learning disability
April 2009: New code to protect the liberty of those who cannot consent comes into force
March 2009: Report finds social care provision needs urgent improvement
January 2009: Valuing People Now published!
