Oliver McGowan’s Campaign Gains Support The Oliver McGowan Campaign was founded by Paula McGowan following the death of her son Oliver. Oliver McGowan died after...
Learning Disability and Autistic Patients Failed by the System
Learning disability and autistic patients are being failed by a system that does not provide proper care and support. Without proper care and support these...
Care Act analysis: what must be considered when setting personal budgets
Do not get stung, Belinda Schwehr examines a recent case in which the ombudsman criticised a council for arbitrarily capping a woman’s live-in care payments. A...
Children with learning disabilities endure ‘terrible suffering’ in mental health hospitals, report finds
Children with learning disabilities endure ‘terrible suffering’ in mental health hospitals, report finds. Mother tells how her son’s arm was “snapped” by hospital staff when...
To my beautiful boy, You’re 1 in 100,000 in every way
My beautiful little boy was diagnosed with Aniridia, a rare genetic eye condition (1 in 100,000), at 6 weeks’ old. In simple terms this means that...
Autism-anorexia link ‘must be acted on’
The NHS must change the way it assesses eating disorders to take account of a link with autism, a research charity has said.
Council forced to pay £2,000 for failing to find school for autistic child
Gloucestershire County Council was forced to pay £2,000 to a child with special educational needs after failing to provide education for him.
Record-breaking wheelchair team pulls plane at Heathrow to help disabled flying charity
UK charity Aerobility has joined forces with British Airways and Heathrow Airport Ltd to set a new record for the Heaviest aircraft pulled over 100m...
Deaf children fall behind at school, says charity
Only 30.6% achieve a GCSE strong pass - Grade 5 or above - in both English and maths, compared with 48.3% of children with no...
Teaching Units for Deaf Children Keep Closing
Ten dedicated teaching units for deaf children in schools are being closed every year, according to a new report
No Deal Brexit Poses a Potentially Fatal Risk to Those with Epilepsy
A coalition of epilepsy and neurology organisations warn of the dangers in the event of a national medical shortage
Call to Register Home-Schooled Children
Children taught at home should be recorded on a compulsory register, England's children's commissioner has said.
Landmark judicial review hands schools more power to challenge council SEND placements.
Schools are in a stronger position to push back against councils that order them to take a pupil whose special educational needs they are unable...
Special needs overspend in eight out of 10 councils
English councils have overspent by at least £324m on their budgets for young adults and children with special needs this financial year, the BBC has...
‘This is another crack in the glass ceiling’: RSC casts disabled actors in new season
Artistic director Greg Doran hopes to ‘reflect the nation’ in boost to stage diversity
Mother’s appeal after boy diagnosed with autism when he just needed antibiotics
A mother is calling for greater awareness of a little-known condition she believes changed her easy-going son overnight.
Disability hate crime: Katie Price backed over online abuse by MPs
Self-regulation of social media "has failed disabled people", according to MPs who have backed a petition calling for new laws, led by model Katie Price.
How shops sign away the self-worth of disabled people
When a ‘chip and signature’ payment card is refused, the impact on a shopper’s dignity is huge
Changes to disability benefits cost £4bn in extra welfare payments
Changes to the disability benefits system that has caused huge hardship to some of the country’s most vulnerable people has cost the government more than...
Families waiting too long for special needs support in England
Thousands of children in England with special educational needs are waiting too long for an education, health and care plan (EHC), the BBC has learned.
Funding Announced to Train 900 New Children’s Social Workers
£45million to boost the number of trainees on the Frontline programme
Home Office trying to force two disabled children to leave country
Treatment of British-born children with complex disabilities breaches UK and UN law say experts
The blind woman developing tech for the good of others
An accident in a swimming pool left Chieko Asakawa blind at the age of 14. For the past three decades she's worked to create technology...
Parents ‘accused of exaggerating child illnesses’
Parents who say they have been accused of fabricating their disabled children's illnesses are being asked to "discuss concerns directly".
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