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Find out about BIHR's partnership work with NHS England Midlands and West Midlands ADASS to deliver change through human rights across services supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability.

New YouGov poll reveals strong public support for the ECHR, despite knowledge gaps. Explore how attitudes vary and the importance of human rights awareness.

Find out more about how you can keep up to date on BIHR's work and the latest human rights news in the UK.

This week’s news includes our short course for staff working in mental health services and a letter from the Scottish Human Rights Consortium on protest rights.

In the news this week, we reflect on the successes of our recent programmes as they break for the summer.

This week’s human rights news includes the opening of applications for our Human Rights & Mental Health Inpatient Course, workshops for advocates and healthcare professionals and the publication of the Government response to the Joint Committee on Human Right's on the Mental Health Bill.

This week’s human rights news includes a quarterly meeting with London community groups, an article about the human rights card game we made with and for people with a learning disability, a new 10-year plan for the NHS in England, and data on the wrongful classification of child asylum seekers as adults.

This week’s human rights news includes our London Summer Human Rights Event, as well as our funder event and sharing some of or co-produced work to celebrate co-production week.

This week’s human rights news includes our workshops with health and social care practitioners and an update on the Assisted Dying Bill.

This week we are sharing news of a World Refugee Day event, as well as marking Learning Disability Week by sharing some of the resources we have co-produced with self-advocates to support people with learning disabilities to use their human rights. We also share a decision by the Local Government Ombudsman over an unauthorised deprivation of liberty.