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Summary and Guidance
24 Jun 2019
Healthcare standards for children and young people in secure settings
There are about 1,000 children and young people held in secure settings at any one time. They are some of the most vul…
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Summary and Guidance
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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Report
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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Summary and Guidance
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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Comment
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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Toolkit and Multi-Media
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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Report
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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Comment
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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Report
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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Participation
13 May 2019
Participation past projects
The participation team prides itself on the variety of its work. We have led and delivered many different projects, be…
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Report
02 May 2019
CDC Spring Digest 2019
Welcome to your CDC Spring Digest. A snapshot of this quarter's digest: Successful conferences on a wide ra…
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01 May 2019
CDC's joint conference puts the spotlight on discussing sex and relationship with young people with disabilities
On the 29th of March, CDC joined forces with the Sex Education Forum to bring together professionals and parents, for…
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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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14 Jan 2021
Looking forward for SEND: The Review, the challenges, the culture change
This morning Minister Ford gave a speech at the TES SEN virtual show, a catch up on all of the key issues in SEND and…
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05 Jan 2021
Changes to national restrictions and temporary school closures
Last updated 14th January 2021 On Monday 4th January 2021 the Prime Minister announced that England will move in…
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31 Dec 2020
The return to school in January 2021
Last updated 31st December 2020 On Wednesday 30 December, in response to rapidly rising case rates due to the new,…
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