We have provided a link to Learning Disability Scotland's newsletter below.
There are two main articles in this edition.
First looks at how the dominant position of local authorities in funding of social care for people with learning disabilities might affect the development of Self Directed Support. A fuller version of this article is available at http://tinyurl.com/SDS2011
Our second article looks at the increasing charges applied for social care services and wonders if this is a new form of "tax" on the most vulnerable.