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

Friendships, Relationships and Professional Boundaries

Sinéad McHugh-Hicks, Regional Managing Director shares her thoughts on Friendships, Relationships and Professional Boundaries with the people we support.

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Celebrating World Autism Awareness Week with three exciting announcements

World Autism Awareness Day 2019 sees three exciting announcements from Dimensions about our autism friendly training. Sarah Clarke, Campaigns Manager, blogs.

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The learning disability vote is as important as ever

There’s another election on the horizon. So is registering to vote, and encouraging or supporting people to register to vote, high on your priority list just now? I very much hope it is.

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How we tackled hate crime in 2018

We met with our Hate Crime Campaigns Advisor, Mark Brookes, to look back over last year of our #ImWithSam campaign and find out what's planned for 2019.

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All I want for Christmas is…

Dimensions CEO, Steve Scown, blogs about the importance of friendship.

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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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