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...
The number of schools in England buying in professional mental health support for pupils has nearly doubled in three years, as prompt access to NHS services for those children most in need continues to be a problem, a...
Leading disability charity Leonard Cheshire has announced that it is working with ‘On Our Radar’ to build a network of citizen reporters – young disabled people who will be trained in the art of reporting and...
Thousands of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not registered in schools or educational settings, latest Ofsted figures show. The inspectorate’s annual report states that 3,500...
Research conducted by charity Ambitious about Autism found that from their child first being referred for an autism assessment, 46 per cent of parents waited longer than 18 months for a formal diagnosis. Some parents...
Vulnerable children suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are being further traumatised through school punishments such as being secluded and excluded, according to a mental health charity. Read the full...
Matthew Moffatt, who is autistic, struggled when he started at De Montfort University. “When I saw how busy my lecture theatre was, it was terrifying,” he says. “My sense of panic is through the roof and I’m not very...
Thousands of young people undergoing a mental health crisis, including those who are potentially suicidal, are having to wait more than four hours for A&E care, NHS figures show. Almost a fifth of the under-18s who...
Researchers from King’s College London have published findings following a systematic review looking at problematic smartphone usage (PSU) and associated mental health outcomes amongst children and young people...
So many young people experience violence in relationships it should be prioritised like substance misuse or smoking, a study has said. Cardiff University researchers questioned 75,000 11 to 16-year-olds, a first large...
The NYAS latest campaign Looked after Minds highlights the lack of mental health support for care-experienced children is limiting their potential and making them feeling frustrated, helpless and alone. They are...
