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Read our news blogs from our CEO, Steve Scown, commenting on issues about learning disability, autism, support and social care.

Putting a man on the moon

All our roles today within Dimensions are interdependent – just like they were at St Paul’s, and are today at NASA.

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What makes you decide to move on?

Recent news stories bore the grim statistic that 30% of the country’s social care workforce left their jobs last year. Commentators talked about social care being on the brink of...

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A joyful career in care

Recently visiting one of our services in Hampshire I was delighted to catch up with Ann, someone I first met in 1985 as a charge nurse in a hospital I...

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Transforming Care performance data in the spotlight

We’re just 9 months from the end of Transforming Care. Whilst information suggests that its aims will continue as the ‘learning disability’ focus in Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, there isn’t...

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Position statement: Health and wellbeing for people with learning disabilities or autism

We believe everyone has the right to lead a healthy and active lifestyle. People with learning disabilities and autism should have good quality healthcare. More must be done to support people to access support to be healthy...

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Jeremy Hunt, please don’t exclude people with learning disabilities from your thinking – they are ready to talk

Our CEO Steve Scown blogs about Jeremy Hunt's March 2018 speech on social care.

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Tea, chips and batman: choice and control, and our freedom to care

Dimensions CEO, Steve Scown, blogs about the importance of giving people choice and control but also the sector's aversion to risk.

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Lives, worthy of life – My thoughts on Holocaust Memorial Day

Today, 27th January, is Holocaust Memorial Day 2018. I am Alicia Wood, Head of Public Affairs at Dimensions, and I want to help remember the impact of the Holocaust.

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Why we must talk about constipation

In the week of an inquest into the death by faecal impaction of Richard Handley, a young man with learning disabilities, Dimensions, along with other providers, was challenged to speak up. So we will.

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What is the point of the Nursing and Midwifery Council?

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which regulates nurses’ conduct, surely anticipated a backlash over its ruling, fully eight years after the event, that nurse Mr Nyamukapa had ‘no case to answer’ having broken the jaw of a young man in his charge, and knocked out two of his teeth with a punch.

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