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People with learning disabilities continue to die prematurely, new report shows
16 July 2020
People with learning disabilities in England continue to die prematurely and from treatable causes of death, the latest annual report from the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) programme shows.
- Support frontline workers to engage parents struggling with safer sleeping advice 16 July 2020 The Government needs to develop new tools to help prevent the sudden unexpected death of infants (SUDI), says a new review by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.
- People with learning disabilities continue to die prematurely, new report shows 16 July 2020 People with learning disabilities in England continue to die prematurely and from treatable causes of death, the latest annual report from the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) programme shows.
- Success for staff and students working in adult social care research 10 July 2020 Staff and students in the School have won career and capacity-building awards from the National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR). These awards are designed to help researchers with an interest in adult social care research to grow and to support the overall community of academic and practitioner researchers in the field.
- The School for Policy Studies achieves Athena SWAN award 22 May 2020 The Athena SWAN Charter recognises achievements and progress towards gender equality. Athena SWAN gives universities the tools to evaluate and improve their work in advancing the careers of women and achieving gender parity at all levels of seniority.
- Social Policy at the University of Bristol is among best in the world, QS league table confirms 1 May 2020 Data from the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020, which highlights the world’s top universities in a range of popular subject areas, places Social Policy at Bristol in the top 20 worldwide.
- Research revealing huge number of vulnerable children failing at school spurs call to action 27 April 2020 One in seven of all children in England have a social worker at some stage during their schooling and are behind educationally by at least 30 percent by the age of 16 compared to their peers, according to new research published today.
- Bristol announces the first of many new research projects to tackle COVID-19 8 April 2020 Diagnostic research to increase the UK's testing capacity, new vaccine targets, understanding more about people who are asymptomatic, and digital support for people with diabetes, are some of the new projects announced by the University of Bristol today that will undertake vital COVID-19 research to tackle the global health crisis.
- Journal of Gender-Based Violence accepted into the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) 6 April 2020
- Help families facing Covid-19 crisis: social policy academics and the BPI say raise Child Benefit to £50 2 April 2020
- How to stay physically active during coronavirus restrictions 27 March 2020 With the coronavirus pandemic leading to people across the nation being confined to their homes, experts at the University of Bristol have created some guidance to keep people active.