The Department for Health & Social Care has published the fifth progress report of the Suicide Prevention Strategy for England setting out the steps taken to reduce deaths by suicide since January 2019. ...
Children with special needs in England are less likely to receive support if they are in disadvantaged areas or attend academy schools, according to a study that warns of a “postcode lottery”. Read the full...
A charity has called on the government to fund training for more specialist therapists to help deaf children learn to listen and speak.
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The Department for Health & Social Care has published the fifth progress report of the Suicide Prevention Strategy for England setting out the steps taken to reduce deaths by suicide since January 2019. The report includes: a section on suicide...
Children with special needs in England are less likely to receive support if they are in disadvantaged areas or attend academy schools, according to a study that warns of a “postcode lottery”.
Read the full article on this link to The Guardian
A charity has called on the government to fund training for more specialist therapists to help deaf children learn to listen and speak.
Read the full article on this link to Children & Young People Now
Flaws in the disability benefits system were “the predominant factor and the only acute factor” that led to a young disabled mother taking her own life, a coroner has concluded. Gordon Clow, assistant coroner for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire...
Britain’s schools shutdown risks creating a generation of angry, withdrawn young people. Who will pick up the pieces?
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A dramatic rise in serious mental health conditions in children over the last three years has been revealed in a damning report by the children’s commissioner for England.
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Schools are finding it increasingly difficult to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) amid the Covid-19 health crisis, research has found. Among special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs), almost three quarters...
Tim Spencer-Lane sets out how the law governing compulsory treatment would change under the government’s White Paper to reform the MHA.
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White Paper sets out plan to implement much of 2018 review of act including enabling people to nominate a person to help with care decisions and express advance preferences for treatment.
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Ward staff can mistakenly see religious beliefs as symptoms of mental illness and lack confidence in meeting cultural needs, but better training and effective assessments, using the social model, can help, finds research. Read the full article on...
