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David Allen is leading a team in Wales which is undertaking one of the biggest attempts to reshape service provision for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour in the UK. Here, he explains the facts and figures behind this ambitious project
Until fairly recently, most people with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour lived in long-stay hospitals (
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