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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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The feasibility and effectiveness of tailored behavioural sleep interventions for children with neurodevelopmental conditions.

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Researchers at Aston University are working in partnership with Cerebra to understand how practical and effective behavioural sleep interventions are for children with neurodevelopmental conditions. This project will examine whether tailored sleep interventions improve children’s sleep, daytime behaviour, and caregiver wellbeing. Why do we need a project examining sleep in children with neurodevelopmental conditions? Children

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The Mediterranean diet and maternal stress reduction during pregnancy improve infant neurodevelopment

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Interventions based on the Mediterranean diet or mindfulness to reduce stress during pregnancy improve the neurodevelopment of children in the first two years of life. This is demonstrated by an analysis of the clinical trial IMPACT-BCN published in the journal JAMA Network Open. The clinical trial was coordinated by Eduard Gratacós, director of BCNatal (from

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School Transport: what will the Department for Education’s updated guidance mean for disabled children and their families?

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In June 2023, the Department for Education published the long awaited revised school transport guidance, Travel to school for children of compulsory school age: Statutory guidance for local authorities. Cerebra’s Legal Entitlements and Problem-Solving (LEaP) Project team believes that the revised guidance will have a negative impact on disabled children and their families. (1) Background

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