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Summary and Guidance
31 May 2010
Early Years and DDA
Council for Disabled Children, SureStart & National Children's Bureau
What service providers need to know Practice Guide From September 2002, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 a…
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Report
01 Feb 2010
Social and economic value of short breaks
Every Disabled Child Matters and Action for Children
Action for Children and Every Disabled Child Matters commissioned nef consulting to examine the social and economic va…
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Health and Wellbeing
01 Oct 2009
Toolkit for High-Quality Neonatal Services
The Toolkit for High Quality Neonatal Services comprises a commissioning framework to aid with strategic development o…
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Report
06 Apr 2009
Short Breaks Tracking Interim Report
Every Disabled Child Matters
From 2008 to 2011 EDCM undertook an ongoing qualitative research project with the aim of tracking the impact of the  
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Summary and Guidance
01 Jan 2008
Extending Inclusion
Council for Disabled Children
Access for disabled children and young people to extended schools and children's centres: a development manual This…
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Report
01 Jan 2008
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
United Nations
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is the first human rights treaty of the 21st Cen…
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Summary and Guidance
01 Jan 2006
Diversity Matters
Council for Disabled Children, National Children's Bureau and Department for Education and Skills
This guide will make it possible for statutory and voluntary organisations to learn from good practice and develop ser…
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Summary and Guidance
05 Sep 2005
Between a rock and a hard place
Every Disabled Child Matters
Employment is a key government strategy to end child poverty. Yet for many parents (and in particular mothers) of disa…
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07 Mar 2019
FLARE Social Media Week: Rights Session Plan
The Council for Disabled Children ran a social media week on 8th April 2019. They wanted to encourage young people to…
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05 Feb 2019
CDC Winter Digest 2019
Welcome to your CDC winter Digest. A snapshot of this quarter's digest: CDC's conference on getting relatio…
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10 Dec 2018
Factsheet #7: Monitoring and Evaluation
There are many instances of good quality children and young people (CYP)’s participation, however, it is often diffi…
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20 Jul 2021
A post card from (virtual) Serbia
Phillipa Stobbs, Assistant Director, Education, Council for Disabled Children
A recent piece of work by the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (the Agency) reviews a range o…
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08 Jul 2021
Next Steps on the SEND Review: A Blog from CDC
The cross-Government SEND review was launched over two years ago. Since then a huge amount of work has taken place, ev…
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01 Jun 2021
Lessons Learnt From Lockdown: The highs and lows of the pandemic's impact on disabled children and young people
Between February and March 2021, as part of the Making Participation Work programme which is funded by the Department…
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