20/07/2026
Deeply concerning. Please sign the open letter to the new PM. Linsey Farnsworth MP can you help with this?
Please be aware that this post may contain distressing content. If you are a family carer of someone with a severe learning disability and you are affected by this, you can contact the CBF’s Family Support Service.
The 2024 ‘Learning from lives and deaths – people with a learning disability and autistic people’ (LeDeR) report was published on 13th July. Like its predecessors, the report found that people with a learning disability are dying too young – 19 years younger than the general population.
People with severe or profound learning disabilities were more than three times as likely to die from a cause of death which is treatable than the general population. In many cases people would have survived if they had received timely and effective healthcare.
We are deeply concerned that the programme has been deprioritised.
Learning Disability England are leading an open letter to the new Prime Minister about the need to tackle health inequalities for people with a learning disability. Add your name to the letter to help strengthen the call for change: https://bit.ly/44RFTLv
You can read our full statement on our website: https://www.challengingbehaviour.org.uk/news/cbf-statement-on-the-2024-leder-report/