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A week ago (and many thanks to Donna Glover for pointing me to this) the Government began an open consultation (responses in by 13thFebruary folks) on the future of funding for supported housing across England,Wales and Scotland . This is a massive issue, particularly in terms of how much housing benefit goes into supported housing landlords’ coffers when there is a serious shortage of affordable housing for rent. As part of the consultation, the government has published an evidence review conducted by Ipsos Mori, Imogen Blood & Associates, and the Housing and Support Partnership, using a mixture of official statistics, datasets, surveys, and extrapolation  Although it’s somewhat ticklish territory given the scale of the cuts being scythed from public funding to support for people with learning disabilities, it’s long been my contention that there is still a lot of public money being spent to institutionalise people with learning disabilities rather than to really support peop...

This post updates and extends a blogpost I did last year about trends over time in the learning disability nursing workforce in England. There has been a lot of noise made about the importance of learning disability nurses in helping people with learning disabilities get decent access to decent healthcare. On the principle that an organisation’s priorities are often shown in where it puts its money, what are the priorities of those training and employing nurses in the NHS? So, what’s happening to the workforce of nurses working specifically with people with learning disabilities in England? NHS Digital, as part of their suite of NHS workforce statistics , provide monthly information on the number of Whole-Time Equivalent (WTE) nurses in the categories of Community Learning Disabilities nurses and Other Learning Disabilities nurses. The graph below shows this information for the month of May from 2010 through to 2016. For community learning disabilities nurses, there were 2,571 WTE nurs...