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19 Jun 2019
New Expert Parent Programme: Complex health needs and transition to adulthood
Developing a new Expert Parent Programme: Complex health needs and transition to adulthood The Council for Disabled…
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18 Jun 2019
The right to a personal health budget/integrated personal budget in easy read
This is an Easy Read version of: ‘A consultation on extending legal rights to have a personal health budget and inte…
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12 Jun 2019
We need to talk: Access to speech and language therapy
The Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield, has published a report which exposes enormous variation in spending aro…
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10 Jun 2019
Birth Injury Justice Center: Disability Support
The Birth Injury Justice Center has compiled an in-depth nationwide resource list to help guide and serve all families…
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07 Jun 2019
New Expert Parent Programme: Complex health needs and transition to adulthood
New Expert Parent Programme: Complex health needs and transition to adulthood The Council for Disabled Children rec…
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07 Jun 2019
Talking Mental Health during Transition
CDC's Lead for Transition, Catherine Goodall, talks through the key take-aways from her workshop on mental health at t…
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31 May 2019
Closing the employment gap for young people
This is a toolkit for those supporting 16–25 year olds experiencing common mental health problems to gain and stay i…
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29 May 2019
0-25 Multi-agency SEND Data Dashboard
The Council for Disabled Children has developed the 0-25 Multi-agency SEND Data Dashboard, a commissioning tool to sup…
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28 May 2019
First Joint Ministerial SEND Roundtable
We are pleased to announce that on Monday the 20th of May the first Joint Ministerial SEND Roundtable took place at th…
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28 May 2019
Study identifies factors behind successful transition of young people with long term health conditions
A major national study coordinated in the North East has recommended a number of improvements which would place young…
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24 May 2019
System continues to fail to meet the needs of children and young people with learning disabilities and or autism
This week, three reports (The Children’s Commissioner, CQC and LeDeR) and the Panorama programme have exposed the sh…
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22 May 2019
New report on children with learning disabilities or autism living in mental health hospitals
The Children's Commissioner's report on children with learning disabilities or autism living in mental health hospital…
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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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20 Jul 2021
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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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