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29 Oct 2018
Attitudes on Public Transport
This week, Amba from the FLARE disabled children and young people's group gives her thoguhts on how attitudes makes al…
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21 Sep 2018
Factsheet #6: Developing a Supportive Environment
For children and young people with SEND to reach their full potential, they need effective, flexible support in a wide…
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28 Jun 2018
Life Beyond FLARE
This week, Meg, a former FLARE member, reflects on what she has learned from being part of the FLARE group. Somethi…
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19 Jun 2018
Work experience should be available to every teenager or young adult.
FLARE's Amba writes about her work experience and how it has given her much more than career inspiration. Do you th…
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01 Jun 2018
Meeting the Minister
On Tuesday 27th March, FLARE met with the newly appointed Minister for Children and Families, Nadhim Zahawi, at the De…
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05 Apr 2018
Surviving Loneliness and Other Sad Times
This week's guest blogger is Meg, from the FLARE children and young people's group.
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15 Mar 2018
'All ages, all abilities, all ready and willing to be heard.'
This week's guest blogger is Carys from FLARE, who gives her thoughts on co-facilitating the Making Participation Work…
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08 Mar 2018
Announcement on Strategic Participation of Children, Young People and Parent Carers
Announcement of a newly formed consortium with KIDS, Contact and The National Network of Parent Carer Forums.
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07 Mar 2018
'It was a great turnout with over 60 children and young people'
This week's guest blogger is Amba from the FLARE children and young people's group. She talks here about her experienc…
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28 Feb 2018
Hot Topic #5 - Teacher training to understand our SEND support needs
'Good support is when someone listens to you and understands your needs' - FLARE member Flexible, responsive suppor…
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22 Feb 2018
"My school gives me exactly what I need."
This week we have FLARE's first guest Vlogger, Zach. He is looking at the benefits that going to a special school can…
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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
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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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