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2nd April 2014 is National Autism Awareness Day. Autism is a condition that affects one in a hundred people in the UK and is recognised as a developmental disability. It affects the way a person communicates and how they experience the world around them. ...
Research by the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation highlights 'increased rationing of social care in response to deep cuts from central government, despite the growing numbers of older people in the population'. Key findings of the report...
ITV has broadcast footage of staff at a care home slapping and abusing a patient in their care. The two care staff at The Priory Highbank Centre in Bury have now pleaded guilty to abusing a brain-damaged patient at the private care home which charges around...
The deadline to make an appeal against school admission decisions relating to secondary education is fast approaching. National Offer Day on the 3rd March 2014 provided parents and pupils with a determination on whether they had been successful in their...
Those were the words of Lady Hale at The Supreme Court which today heard an important set of cases (P (by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor ) v Cheshire West and Chester Council and P and Q (by their litigation friend the Official Solicitor) v...
The Birmingham Mail has recently reported (17th March 2014) that families from a school in Rednal have been affected by a data protection breach involving a council contractor. Personal details of 11-year-old school pupils were sent to...
A recent Wales ITV investigation which was aired during Wales This Week on the 17th March 2014 reflected concerns of parents that the provision of Special Educational Needs to children was no better than it had been back in the 1980s. ITV made a Freedom of...
In the words of Lord Hardie, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 was supposed to be a ''turning point in the rights of vulnerable people; those with learning difficulties, dementia, brain injuries or temporary impairment". The Act marked a change...
Anyone who watched the latest episode of Silk last Monday will have heard Billy the clerk at fictional chambers Shoe Lane make that statement in a storyline which revolved around the harrowing case of a mother who is put on...
The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has released a report 'SEN: Preparing for the future' in which it has warned local authorities regarding the fair treatment of children with statements of Special Educational Needs (SEN). The...
