Valuing People Then - The Government Response to the LEDER report
Today (12 th September 2018) the government response to the Learning from Deaths Review (LeDeR) report was published (badged as coming from the Department for Health and Social Care and NHS England). The LeDeR project is being run by Bristol University (the same group who ran the Confidential Inquiry into the Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities), and is working to put into place a national system for reviewing the deaths of people with learning disabilities across England. A report of progress so far on the LeDeR project was finally published in May 2018 (despite the date on the report being December 2017). At the time I wrote two blogposts about what the report said and the circumstances of its publication so I don’t want to go over this ground again here: suffice it to say for this blog that the report made 9 recommendations about what needed to happen to improve how people’s deaths were reviewed and to make a start on stopping the shocking scale of needless de...