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...
When I began to write a book four years ago about life for disabled women in Britain, I didn’t bank on it being particularly topical. Stuck in bed with chronic fatigue and pain in my early 30s, I wanted to write...
Education leaders are being asked to share examples of good practice in mainstream support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), as part of a call for evidence launched by Education...
Mental health charities in England are struggling to cope with the number of sick patients referred to them by GPs, with under-qualified professionals increasingly tasked with treating the seriously ill. Read the full...
Special schools are more likely to employ teachers without qualified teacher status than mainstream settings, according to latest research. While in mainstream primary and secondary schools around 3% of teachers do not...
The tragic loss of a mother of three highlights how widespread perinatal mental illness is – and that care is patchy and underfunded
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The Strategies for Safety and Wellbeing (SSW) mental health intervention was found to be the most effective among five programmes analysed for the research, which involved more than 30,000 pupils across 513 schools...
Inconsistencies in identifying and meeting special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are creating a “lottery” for pupils, new data analysis shows. Read the full article on this link to Children & Young...
A group of children’s and mental health charities have published a report calling for the Government to increase investment in child mental health care in England. The report states that around 20% of young people in...
The children’s mental health crisis will cost them more than £1 trillion in lost earnings over their lifetime, campaigners are warning.
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UCL has published new research into child admissions to medical wards for mental health concerns in England. Researchers examined data on admissions of 5- to 18-year-olds to medical wards in England from 2012 to 2022...
