Improving Health and Lives (IHaL) is the Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory: a three year project funded by the Department of Health in response to Sir Jonathan Michael’s 2008 inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities. The national observatory aims to provide better, easier to understand information on the health and wellbeing [read the full story…]
This report, jointly funded by the RNIB and SeeAbility aims to estimate how many people with learning disabilities in the UK are likely to have visual impairments. The presence of visual impairments can significantly impair the independence and quality of life of people with learning disabilities, but currently there is no national monitoring of the [read the full story…]
Public sector services have a legal duty to provide ‘reasonable adjustments’ for people with learning disabilities. This might mean removing physical barriers to access which is clearly important, but also includes the removal of barriers that exist as the result of the way the service is organised or delivered, ensuring that policies, procedures and [read the full story…]
This report from Improving Health and Lives: Learning Disabilities Observatory (IHaL) brings together information on the characteristics of people with learning disabilities, the services and supports they use and their carers. The aim of this report is to provide a concise summary of this information from a variety of Government departments and to provide links [read the full story…]
