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...Care courses and qualifications. The work of a learning disability nurse goes far beyond traditional healthcare: it is a compassionate, rights-based, person-centred practice that transforms lives, strengthens families, and builds inclusive communities. Yet despite the importance of this speciality, learning disability nursing remains one of the lesser-known fields of...

...adults. Examples could involve: Selling or transporting drugs, weapons, or money around towns and between towns (often across county lines) Being forced to shoplift or pickpocket Sexually exploiting/exploited young people Threatening or intimidating other young people, just because of a perceived difference due to heritage or sexuality Recruiting the child into terrorist...

...adult services. I also taught for The Open University and delighted in the variety of my work, which included teaching, practice tutor roles and delivering residential schools, which were large, a real thrill and great fun. Gradually, despite enjoying my various work roles, I began to be a bit more worried about everything, doubting myself and feeling muddly. I was overly...

...adults who sought care for unrelated complaints in 24 clinics across the city. Those who scored high on a mental health screening test were invited to participate. About half the participants met with health workers on the bench. The other half received standard care and education, including referral to a psychiatrist and medication. Prior to the programme, the health...

...adults in care homes and hospitals, andare now an amendment of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales.. New provisions known as the ‘deprivation of liberty safeguards’ (DoLS) were incorporated and came into force in April 2009. Later clarification of the deprivation of liberty was provided by a case known in shorthand as Cheshire West (2014). This case...

...adult-focused projects that seek to build wellbeing among children and young people – so we work with children, young people, their families, and those who seek to support them, such as health advocates or policy makers. Addressing children and young people’s wellbeing in body, mind and media, the Centre currently builds research and advocacy on: Food, food practices,...