The new Mental Health Act has received Royal Assent, meaning it is now law. This provides the legal framework to detain and ...

The Government's additional £3 billion in funding for new specialist SEND places in mainstream schools has been met with ...

LeDeR is withdrawing its 2023 annual report and an updated version will be published in January 2026 due to a technical issue ...

A new report from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission found that support for children with SEND who are out of school or ...

A new study has found that people with a learning disability who have epilepsy face a greater threat of dying younger than ...

There are around 16.1m people in the UK with a disability yet almost half of all websites analysed in a new report need ...

People with a learning disability are more prone to constipation than those without learning disabilities. They are also more likely to present differently or have difficulty communicating their ...

Co-pilot and the National Autistic Society have developed new road safety resource for professionals to better support autistic and neurodiverse learners.

Disabled people are significantly more likely to report feeling lonely, than the general population, with findings showing that two in five of people living with disabilities experience loneliness, ...

Only 4.8% of people with a learning disability are in paid employment, according to a new report that aims to drive action to prevent ill health, support people to stay in work, and help employers ...

A national assessment system is one of the key recommendations of a new report from the King’s Fund looking at social care reform in England. The report Fixing social care: the six key problems and ...

Autistic people are four times more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than people without autism, according to a new study. The research published in JAMA Neurology found that the two conditions ...