News, reports and resources

View the main College resources on COVID-19.

COVID-19 and people with intellectual disability: statement from the Faculty, 27 March 2020 (PDF)

MENCAP COVID-19 information (easy read), March 2020 (PDF)

DNAR notices on people with ID and Autism: letter from NHSEI, 3 April 2020 (PDF)

COVID-19 and Intellectual Disability: RADIANT Guidance for Community & In Patient settings

Read our most recent newsletters:

• September 2019 (PDF)
• April 2019 (PDF)
• October 2018 (PDF)
• April 2018 (PDF)
• October 2017 (PDF)

If you would like an earlier newsletter, please email our archivist.

• Psychological therapies and people who have intellectual disabilities 
• Challenging behaviour: a unified approach – update April 2016 (PDF)
• Psychotropic drug prescribing for people with intellectual disability, mental health problems and/or behaviours that challenge: practice guidelines April 2016 (PDF)
• Community-based services for people with intellectual disability and mental health problems May 2015 (PDF)
• An Intellectual Disability Outcomes Framework for improving the quality of services for people with intellectual disability May 2015 (PDF)
• Care pathways for people with intellectual disability September 2014 (PDF)
• Forensic care pathways for adults with intellectual disability involved with the criminal justice system February 2014 (PDF)
• People with learning disability and mental health, behavioural or forensic problems: the role of in-patient services July 2013 (PDF)
• Minority ethnic communities and specialist learning disability services July 2011(PDF)
• Future role of psychiatrists working with people with learning disability January 2011 (PDF)
• Guidance on copying clinical letters to patients (Word).

• Stopping Overuse of Medication in People with Learning Disability (STOMP) (PDF)
• No Medication...? Why...?: Medication might not be the best thing to help people with learning disabilities or autism who are showing challenging behaviours (PDF).

• CR226 Mental health services for adults with mild intellectual disability March 2020 (PDF)
• CR206 Prescribing anti-epileptic drugs for people with epilepsy and intellectual disability October 2017 (PDF)
• CR203 Management of epilepsy in adults with intellectual disability May 2017 (PDF)
• CR200 Psychiatric services for young people with intellectual disabilities Aug 2016 (PDF) 
• CR196 Dementia and people with learning disabilities 2015 (PDF) see under BPS Resources/Guidance
• CR144 Challenging Behaviour: A Unified Approach June 20017 (PDF)
• Challenging behaviour: a unified approach – update April 2016 (PDF)

• No Medication...? Why...? Medication might not be the best thing to help people with learning disabilities or autism who are showing challenging behaviours (PDF)
• World Psychiatric Association (WPA) report on mental health issues in people with intellectual disability (PDF)
• NICE guideline on Mental Health problems in people with learning disabilities (PDF)
• Guidance for prison healthcare staff treating patients with learning disabilities (PDF)
• Guidance on the assessment and diagnosis of intellectual disabilities in adulthood (PDF)
• Guidance for commissioners of mental health services for people with learning disabilities (PDF)
• Improving the Health and Wellbeing of People with Learning Disabilities:  An Evidence-Based Commissioning Guide for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) (PDF)
• CIPOLD: Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities (PDF)
• Department of Health Concordat on Winterbourne View (PDF) 
  • *Easy read format (PDF)

• Department of Health Final Report on Winterbourne View (PDF) 
  • *Easy read format (PDF)
• South Gloucestershire Serious Case Review (PDF)
  • *Easy read format (PDF)
• CQC report on 150 unannounced inspections to care homes (PDF) 
  • *Easy read format (PDF)
• Forgotten Europeans Forgotten Rights (PDF)
• CQC action plan for learning disability (PDF)
• SUDEP leaflet: Epilepsy - make your risk smaller (PDF) and Easy read format (PDF)

• Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities Section in the EPA
• Literature for professionals on Intellectual Disabilities Psychiatry: reading list (PDF)
• Improving the care of people with ID: examples of Clinical Audit projects (PDF)
• The GMC’s interactive learning and guidance on intellectual disability issues  
• Blake Marsh Lectures (Word).

 Neurodevelopmental Special Interest Group

UK ADHD ID SIG (Twitter)

European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual Disability (EAMHID)

College of Psychiatrists in Ireland

The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)

LD Senate (Twitter)