Briefings about working age adults including autistic people, people with a learning disability and people with mental health problems.
2026 briefings
2025 briefings
- Moving on from children’s services
- Paving the way: a practitioner’s guide to supporting an autistic young person’s successful journey out of children’s services into adult life
- Diagnostic overshadowing and how it impacts on people with a learning disability and autistic people
- Commissioning self-advocacy as a basis for effective co-production
- Developing Shared Lives for people with a learning disability
- Best practice and insights report on improving housing choice for people with a learning disability
2024 briefings
- Commissioning advocacy
- Developing a housing with support pipeline for people with a learning disability and autistic people, 20 June 2024 (event presentation)
- Developing a housing with support pipeline for people with a learning disability and autistic people (guide)
- Closed cultures in social care: Guidance and questions to ask
- Reducing restrictive practice – essentials for commissioners
- Enabling people with a learning disability and autistic people to develop friendships
- Ordinary residence guide: Determining local authority responsibilities under the Care Act and the Mental Health Act
- Preparing for adulthood: Young people with a learning disability and autistic young people, What does the law say? A legal guide for council staff including lawyers and social workers: The Local Government Association with support from PCH has commissioned this guide focusing on young people with a learning disability and autistic young people, to pull together in one place, relevant legislation and guidance to assist local council staff working in this area including social workers and lawyers.
2023 briefings
- Learning disability and autism joint working principles for integrated care system partners, October 2023
- Learning from Life and Death Reviews of people with a learning disability and autistic people, August 2023
- Voter ID requirements: Supporting people to vote in the 2023 English local elections, March 2023
- Dynamic Support Register and Care (Education) and Treatment Review policy and guidance: January 2023
2022 briefings
- Mandatory training about learning disability and autism for health and social care provider staff
- Cost of living and support for people with a learning disability or autistic people
- Down Syndrome Bill: Second Reading, House of Commons, 26 January 2022
- Reforming the Mental Health Act white paper, January 2022
2021 briefings
- National Safe and Wellbeing Review Programme December 2021
- Community Discharge Grant 2021/22, November 2021
- National strategy for Autistic Children, Young People and Adults July 2021
- Changes to LeDer - Learning from Life and Death Reviews of people with a learning disability and autistic people, June 2021