The new Mental Health Act has received Royal Assent, meaning it is now law. This provides the legal framework to detain and ...

The Government's additional £3 billion in funding for new specialist SEND places in mainstream schools has been met with ...

LeDeR is withdrawing its 2023 annual report and an updated version will be published in January 2026 due to a technical issue within the data supplied by the South Central and West Commissioning ...

A new report from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission found that support for children with SEND who are out of school or ...

Nearly half of UK websites risk excluding visitors with disabilities because they need accessibility improvements, according to new research. The State of Accessibility Report analysed Google’s ...

The Government has announced an independent review to understand the prevalence, trends and inequalities associated with mental health conditions, ADHD and autism. It will examine the factors behind ...

A new road safety resource has been developed for professionals to better support autistic and neurodiverse learners. The resource has been developed by Co-Pilot, a networking platform for road safety ...

The latest Learning from Lives and Deaths Review Programme (LeDeR) lists constipation as one of the top five (23.6%) comorbidity conditions for deaths among people with learning disabilities. The ...

Health inequality and missed prevention opportunities are leading to earlier deaths for people with a learning disability (intellectual disability) and epilepsy, according to new research. The study, ...

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