<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Learning disability landing page</title><link>http://www.communitycare.co.uk</link><description /><language>en-gb</language><copyright /><generator /><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:07:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>Councils rapped over service failures for disabled girl</title><link>http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/05/02/118179/councils-rapped-over-service-failures-for-disabled-girl.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/05/02/118179/councils-rapped-over-service-failures-for-disabled-girl.html</guid><description>Two local authorities have been criticised by a local government ombudsman after failing to provide adequate services to a 12-year-old girl with multiple disabilities and complex needs.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Invest in social care to revive economy, government told</title><link>http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/05/02/118180/invest-in-social-care-to-revive-economy-government-told.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/05/02/118180/invest-in-social-care-to-revive-economy-government-told.html</guid><description>Boosting investment in social care through tax breaks and incentives to start up new providers could help revive the economy's flagging fortunes, the government was told today. </description><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:16:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Families to challenge practitioners on Mental Capacity Act</title><link>http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/04/24/118166/families-to-challenge-practitioners-on-mental-capacity-act.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/04/24/118166/families-to-challenge-practitioners-on-mental-capacity-act.html</guid><description>Families are being supported to challenge professionals who exclude them from decisions taken on behalf of their loved-ones under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. </description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Social workers urged to help halt forced marriage visas </title><link>http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/04/05/118127/social-workers-urged-to-help-halt-forced-marriage-visas.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/04/05/118127/social-workers-urged-to-help-halt-forced-marriage-visas.html</guid><description>Border staff are to ask social workers to carry out assessments of learning disabled people's capacity to consent to marry in order to stop visas being granted to foreign spouses in such cases. </description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:12:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NHS safeguarding training squeezed by anti-terrorism strategy</title><link>http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/04/02/118121/nhs-safeguarding-training-squeezed-by-anti-terrorism-strategy.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2012/04/02/118121/nhs-safeguarding-training-squeezed-by-anti-terrorism-strategy.html</guid><description>NHS training in safeguarding is being squeezed by requirements to train staff in identifying adults at risk of becoming terrorists, it has been claimed. </description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:51:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
