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What is Cerebral Palsy?

Cerebral palsy is a medical condition resulting in disorders of movement because of an injury to the brain. It is ...
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A response to the consultation: Reviews of Education, Health and Care plans: proposed timescales

Response to the government's consultation to increase the time a local authority has to issue draft amendments to an EHC ...
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What commonly goes wrong to cause types of birth injury and why?

Birth injury statistics Giving birth is not easy and can be a traumatic experience for all, even if things go ...
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Family Trauma: A Broken Care System

The University of Kent's Tizard Centre has been collaborating with the Challenging Behaviour Foundation, which provides support to families who ...
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School transport, Cerebra help with families of children with brain conditions.

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

In June 2023, the Department for Education published the long awaited revised school transport guidance, Travel to school for children ...
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Making the call

Reasons to seek legal advice about a potential claim for compensation for a child with a brain injury or condition ...
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Case Management following an acquired brain injury

What is case management? Paediatric Case Management is the planning and coordination of therapeutic, medical, and social care to promote ...
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Have your say: Reforms to Assessment and Safeguarding procedures

A strong sense of despair and hopelessness comes over me whenever I am asked to respond to (yet another) Government ...
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BBK’s Free ENS Legal Clinic

BBK’s specialist Child Brain Injury solicitors are launching a dedicated and free of charge legal Clinic for parents of babies ...
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Practical approaches to resolving commonly occurring health and social care difficulties

John Furlong and Derek Tilley work within our Legal Entitlements and Problem-solving Project. They help families to understand what their ...
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