Monthly Archives: December 2012

New adapted treatment programme for offenders

In the first week of December, Prof Murphy spent 4 days training psychology staff in Wakefield and Wynott prisons, alongside FPLD staff, to deliver a new adapted treatment programme for offenders with learning disabilities.  This work is led by Alison … Continue reading

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Seattle Club Conference 2012

Six members of the Tizard team travelled to the Seattle Club Conference, for young researchers in learning disabilities, in Kendal in December, with Prof Glynis Murphy giving the key note speech “Intellectual Disabilities and the Criminal Justice System: Recent Research and … Continue reading

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Hottest Classroom on Earth

Trystan Williams, Principal at Springfield Academy, recently took 10 pupils with behavioural problems including ADHD and Autism on a 100 mile trek through Tanzania – his goal to prove that against all odds the most vulnerable children can truely succeed.  The … Continue reading

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Winterbourne View Hospital – final report

The government has  published its final report into the events at Winterbourne View Hospital and has set out a programme of action to transform services so that vulnerable people no longer live inappropriately in hospitals and are cared for in … Continue reading

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