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Charity gets £600,000 to help explain SEN reforms
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- Wednesday, July 15, 2015 | CYP Now
A charity for families of disabled children has received more than £600,000 to help explain how the government's special educational needs (SEN) reforms work.
Court rules disability benefit suspension breached human rights
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- Friday, July 10, 2015 | CYP Now
The suspension of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) of a disabled child during his stay in hospital was in breach of the Human Rights Act, the Supreme Court has found.
Guide to supporting deaf children
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- Monday, May 11, 2015 | CYP Now
Chris Kang-Mullen explains what councils need to do to meet their duties to support deaf children.
Councils failing deaf children, study finds
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- Friday, April 24, 2015 | CYP Now
Around half of councils are failing in their legal duty to support deaf children in their area, it has been claimed.
Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Disability-related financial support
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- Tuesday, February 17, 2015 | CYP Now
Q: I work with a 17-year-old young person who has a disability. Can she receive direct payments from her local authority for social care services?
Young people to shape NHS services
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- Wednesday, February 11, 2015 | CYP Now
Seven NHS sites are to develop new ways of involving young patients in shaping local health services.
Councils fail to provide detailed information on services for blind children
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- Monday, February 2, 2015 | CYP Now
Nearly half of English local authorities are failing to provide information about services for blind and partially sighted children and young people, according to research by Blind Children UK.
Stretched family finances harming disabled children's health, warns charity
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- Thursday, December 4, 2014 | CYP Now
Disabled children's health is suffering as a result of government austerity measures affecting their parent's finances, Contact a Family has warned.
Legal Update: Legal Q&A - Disability discrimination at school
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- Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | CYP Now
Q: A young person I work with wishes to make a complaint about disability discrimination in relation to an experience she had at her school. How should she go about doing this?
School exacerbates behaviour problems of disabled children, study finds
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- Friday, October 3, 2014 | CYP Now
Behaviour problems experienced by disabled children are made worse by the education they receive in their early years, researchers have claimed.
Children Today
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- Monday, September 15, 2014 | CYP Now
The UK-wide Children Today charity was set up in 1994 to provide disabled children and young people with specialist equipment to help improve their quality of life. There is no statutory right for young
people with disabilities to be provided with equipment they need by the government or NHS, a "gap" that the charity attempts to fill. It relies
entirely on voluntary donations.
Daily roundup: Girlguiding uniform, extremism in schools, and youth ballot
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- Tuesday, August 12, 2014 | CYP Now
Girlguiding launches new uniform; legal challenge considered over new regulations to prevent extremism in schools, and UK Youth Parliament launches ballot to decide annual debate topics, all in the news today.
Benefit rules for children in hospital face legal challenge
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- Friday, August 8, 2014 | CYP Now
The government's decision to suspend disability living allowance (DLA) for ill children who spend more than 84 days in hospital is to be challenged in the Supreme Court.
Daily roundup: FGM awareness, outdoor play and safeguarding investigation
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- Thursday, August 7, 2014 | CYP Now
Free FGM awareness training for professionals launched; parents too scarred to let children play outside; and safeguarding probe at school for disabled children, all in the news today.
One in four health and wellbeing boards sign disabled children's charter
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- Thursday, July 31, 2014 | CYP Now
Disability campaigners have urged health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) to sign up to a charter to improve services for disabled children after it emerged that just a quarter have done so more than a year after it was launched.
Daily roundup: Disabled children, school dinners and free schools
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- Tuesday, July 8, 2014 | CYP Now
Parliamentary inquiry finds failings in childcare system; primary schools struggle to prepare for free school meals plan; and study highlights geographical spread of free schools, all in the news today.
Commission finds ‘adult bias' in offender diversion services
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- Wednesday, June 11, 2014 | CYP Now
A panel of criminal justice and mental health experts has called for greater scrutiny into how liaison and diversion services for young people are being implemented across England.
Health services must improve transition planning, regulator warns
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- Tuesday, June 10, 2014 | CYP Now
Teenagers with disabilities and long-term health needs must be given more support as they near adulthood, England's health and social care regulator has warned.
Good Idea: Web communication gives young people a voice on care
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- Monday, June 9, 2014 | CYP Now
A university-based charitable organisation has helped young people with special educational needs to develop websites holding information about their care and support needs that can be shared.
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