NHS ombudsman warns of years-long waits and patients paying thousands to go private as demand for services soars
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The Centre for Young Lives has published its annual State of the Nation report, collating data and indicators to track trends in poverty, mental health, education, safeguarding, housing, special educational...
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Kinship Care has published a new report on the experiences of children who have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who are raised by kinship carers...
Children in the UK have the lowest levels of life satisfaction across Europe, with “a particularly British fear of failure” partly to blame, according to a major report into childhood happiness. More than a third of UK...
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a decline in young people’s mental health almost three times the national average, charities have warned.
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The government will end nationwide relaxations over providing support for SEND pupils for September – but it will still consider easing requirements at local level. July marks the third month since the government began...
The Schools’ Wellbeing Partnership, in consultation with the Department for Education, has published support for primary schools to help them prepare their recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic so that the mental health...
nasen, a charity that supports those working with children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND) and learning differences, has published a report to help improve early identification of...
More than half of pregnant women in Wales at risk of having babies taken into care experienced mental health problems before they gave birth, a new study shows. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young...
Purpose The 1000 Families Study is a large, UK-based, cohort of families of children with intellectual disability (ID). The main use of the cohort data will be to describe and explore correlates of the well-being of...
Parents of severely disabled children, are the “forgotten families on the brink of collapse” and are warning that they urgently need support as they are at the point of burnout. Families with vulnerable children are...
Child mental health experts have urged the government to prioritise children’s play and socialising with friends over formal lessons and academic progress when schools in England reopen and lockdown restrictions are...
More than one million children diagnosed with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) are not entitled to support through an education, health and care (EHC) plan, a cross-party group of MPs has warned. Read...
