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Helping Rajesh Get To School Safely

Meera contacted our Legal Rights Service for help to get school transport for her 5 year old son, Rajesh. Rajesh is being assessed for autism and has significant developmental delay. He also has profound hearing loss, poor vision and balance problems. Meera and Rajesh live just over a mile away from his school. It wasn’t safe for Meera to walk Rajesh to school. He walks ...
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Help To Navigate Social Care

John Furlong from our Legal Rights Service explains how we guided and supported Sarah through the complex and traumatic process of obtaining a social care assessment for her son Adam and a parent carers' needs assessment for herself. "Sarah contacted us because she was having difficulty getting social care support for her 9 year-old son Adam, who had a diagnosis of autism with aspects of ...
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Securing School Transport For Grace

Our Legal Rights Service provides families of children with brain conditions with help when facing difficulties accessing support services they are entitled to. John Furlong,  Information & Support Officer on our LEaP project explains how we recently helped Shona to appeal against her local authority's decision not to provide school transport for her daughter. "Shona, her husband and four children had been forced to move ...
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Social Care and Parent Carer’s Needs Assessment

Our Legal Rights Service provides families of children with brain conditions with help when facing difficulties accessing support services they are entitled to. Derek Tilley, Senior Development Officer on our LEaP Project, explains how we recently helped Hilary and her son Keith: "Hilary, her husband and son Keith had moved to a neighbouring Welsh local authority for financial reasons. Keith has a metabolic disorder which ...
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School transport, Cerebra help with families of children with brain conditions.

Updated school transport guidance and the impact on disabled children

This article was co-written by Cerebra, IPSEA, SOS!SEN and Contact. We’ve previously expressed concerns about the Department for Education’s revised school transport guidance, Travel to school for children of compulsory school age: Statutory guidance for local authorities (see our previous posts on the Special Needs Jungle and Cerebra websites). We’re inviting families to complete a short school transport survey so that we can learn more ...
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Our Book Library Makes A Big Difference

"I wanted to share my experience of using Cerebra Library and the awesome impact it has had on my family’s life. Firstly, I am Mum to 2, very different, autistic young people. When my children were diagnosed, I had no idea about how being autistic affected how they see the world and how they understand life. So I decided to build on the limited knowledge ...
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Toys To Entertain Asiya

"Asiya enjoys watching things moving around her and doesn't like the quiet. She enjoys watching other people especially children making lots of noise and running around and playing around her. As she has limited movement in her lower limbs she likes being entertained and can get bored of the same things quite easily. Asiya has spina bifida which affects her movement and also has hydrocephalus ...
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Skylar Steps Up to the Challenge!

11 year-old Skylar is taking on a 125,000 steps challenge throughout May. Her Dad, Mark, told us all about why Skylar is taking up this incredible challenge. “Skylar decided to embark on a personal fitness goal throughout May and thought it would be nice to help others along the way so started discussing a step challenge for charity with her mother and that's how this ...
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Your experiences matter

PhD student Louise would like to interview parents who have experience of looking after a child with an acquired brain injury. For more information, please contact [email protected].
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7 questions to ask when choosing a solicitor for your child’s compensation claim

Cerebra understands that as a parent or carer of a disabled child you might need to seek legal advice for your child at some stage. They also understand choosing the right solicitor for the legal advice you need is crucial – as well as daunting. That’s why they have loads of helpful resources on their website to help you create a shortlist of knowledgeable and ...
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