Chris Hatton's blog

I’ve been following @garybourletLDE , @AliciaWood___ , @hillsideliz , @SScown , @LearningDisEng and others who have been subjecting themsel...

Over 20 years ago, Mike Bender in a short article called "The unoffered chair: the history of therapeutic disdain towards people with a...

It was the announcements of proposals for big new inpatient units in Wales , run by private companies, that got me thinking (thinking too l...

In my last blogpost I talked about what the research evidence does and doesn’t say about the lives of people with learning disabilities li...

I’m worrying about the increasing rate at which people contact me to ask if there is any evidence that small, community-based housing is as...

A long time ago, after yet another gloomy parade of statistics, someone (I think it was Martin Coyle? Apologies if it wasn’t you Martin, or...

I watched the Public Accounts Committee session about ‘Care for people with learning disabilities’ earlier this week, which asked questions...