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...
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Disability charity Scope called on Philip Hammond to withdraw his “totally unacceptable and derogatory comments” after he said Britain’s sluggish productivity could partly be blamed on more disabled people in the...
Spurgeons Children’s Charity has released findings from Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made to NHS Trusts in England which have either child and adolescent mental health Services (CAMHS), or A&E departments...
One of the key figures in the disabled people’s movement has come out of retirement to deliver a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities. Professor Mike Oliver (pictured), the disabled academic who first...
New research from disability charity Scope, uncovers the chronic loneliness experienced by working age disabled people, particularly young adults [1]. In a representative survey of 1,004 disabled people the charity...
Tens of thousands of disability and sickness benefit claimants may have been underpaid and it could cost up to £500m to correct the error. The Department for Work and Pensions confirmed it had identified errors in the...
Community treatment orders offer few social benefits for people experiencing psychotic illnesses, research has found. Authors of a study assessing the effectiveness of community treatment orders (CTOs) on people with...
A third of children feel lonely and could be at risk of long-term mental and physical health problems, a charity has warned. A survey of children found that more than one in three had felt lonely in the past week. A...
“It felt like no-one was there for me and no-one cared – I was crying myself to sleep every night.” This is what life was like for Callum after he was taken into care aged 13 in 2008, following the...
