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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

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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 […]

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Traumatic Brain Injuries in Children: Causes and Prevention

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What is a Traumatic Brain Injury? Traumatic brain injury (‘TBI’) is an injury to the head caused externally by a blow, jolt, or penetrating object that disrupts the normal functioning of the brain. The effects of such trauma to the brain in childhood may not always be apparent straight away, but they can be life-long and severe if left untreated. Most children recover

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A response to the consultation: Reviews of Education, Health and Care plans: proposed timescales

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Response to the government’s consultation to increase the time a local authority has to issue draft amendments to an EHC plan following an annual review meeting from four weeks to eight weeks and other proposals, which concluded on 12 August 2022. Introduction 1  This response is prepared by Cerebra Legal Entitlements and Problem Solving (LEaP)

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Working Together to Safeguard Children: Changes to Statutory Guidance

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Response to the government’s consultation proposing changes to Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance which concluded on 6 September 2023.  Introduction 1  This response is prepared on behalf of the Cerebra Legal Entitlements and Problem Solving (LEaP) Project. 2  The LEaP Project is an innovative problem-solving project that helps families of children with brain conditions

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A look at the quality of decision making by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman

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In December 2023 the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman published its annual report. A section on internal reviews (1) describes how the LGSCO randomly samples 21 decision statements from across the different complaint areas three times per year to assess the quality of its decision making. A decision statement is a final decision made

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Written evidence submitted by the Legal Entitlements and Problem Solving (LEaP) Project, Cerebra

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We have published our evidence to The Education Committee, which is assessing the current system of children’s social care in England.  We said there is a lack of support for disabled children and their families, the government should introduce national eligibility criteria in order to access support, ‘ Working Together’ guidance should be reformed to

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Have You Applied for a Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) for your Disabled Child?

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This is your chance to feed back your experience of applying for a Disabled Facilities Grant to the government because the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC) Committee recently launched an online survey for its parliamentary inquiry looking at what Government can do to ensure disabled people have access to accessible and adaptable housing in

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