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Special Educational Needs and Disability - Updated This page co... 11 July 2011
DfE: Special Educational Needs in England: January 2011 This statistical release brings together information on special educational needs and special schools in England. It provides analyses on the characteristics of pupils by their provision of special ed... 11 July 2011
Housing Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced £180m funding to councils to help them fund home adaptations for disabled people. 26 April 2011
Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability makes wide-ranging proposals to respond to the frustrations of children and young people, their families and the prof... 26 April 2011
Local Government Improvement and Development: A new strategic quality assurance framework to safeguard children This framework supports strategic partnerships and individual organisations in assessing whether they are effective in keeping children safe. It aims to support a better understanding of how safe chil... 04 February 2011
All Party Parliamentary Group for Children NCB clerks the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children (APPGC), whose members meet regularly and work strategically to raise the profile of children's issues. During the 2010-11 Parliamentar... 10 December 2010
Developing the participation of disabled children and young people: call for evidence This project is reviewing existing literature to map how young disabled people are currently involved in making decisions about services and has issued a call for evidence. Please submit evidence to D... 10 December 2010
NCB and NCVYS announce strategic alliance NCB and the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS) have announced the establishment of a strategic alliance. The two organisations are delighted to be able to formalise what has been... 10 December 2010
Professor Sir Ian Kennedy’s press release - From Minus nine months, How children’s services should be shaped from conception A huge cultural shift is required across health services in order to meet the needs of children and young people and take the service from its current ‘mediocre state’, according to Pro... 16 September 2010
DH Press release Better Health for children, young people and their families The government today set out a new vision for the health of children and young people in an engagement document, Achieving Equity and Excellence for Children. This forms a detailed supplement to th... 16 September 2010