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...
Parents face much the same problems as they did 10 years ago in terms of accessing support for children with speech, language and communication needs, a study has found. A report by I Can and the Royal College of Speech...
Around 750 babies in the UK every year are born with Down’s syndrome. This equates to one in every thousand. Wednesday 21 March 2018 is World Down Syndrome Day. Led by Down Syndrome International, but linking up...
Sarah Fitzgibbon’s youngest daughter Poppy was diagnosed with ataxic cerebral palsy at 13 months. Now 11 years old, Poppy has profound and multiple learning difficulties. She is a non-verbal wheelchair user who attends...
The number of disabled people living in poverty in Wales has sharply increased since 2010 according to new research – with one expert calling it a “very concerning” trend for the lives of disabled people. Read the full...
Government plans to improve mental health support for young people represent a missed opportunity because they fail to acknowledge that many problems they face are the result of public spending cuts, a group...
The number of approved mental health professionals, the practitioners authorised to carry out Mental Health Act assessments, continues to shrink, research by Community Care shows. A Freedom of Information request to...
The school standards minister said that pupils should be taking exams from Year 7 onwards Nick Gibb has said that the way to ensure that exam pressure does not take a toll on pupils’ mental health is to give them more...
It’s hard to believe but today marks 100 years since women over 30 got the vote in the UK. It wouldn’t be for another 10 years, in 1928, when all women received the vote on the same terms as men. While we know about the...
The government is to review about 1.6m disability benefit claims made over the past four years as part of major U-turn that will see an estimated 220,000 claimants eventually receive backdated higher awards. Read the...
Educational support for deaf children is in “complete disarray” with the number of specialist teachers falling 14 per cent since 2011 despite rising numbers of deaf children, a survey has claimed. Research...
