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A major government initiative encouraging disabled children to become more active is failing to have an impact, according to new research.
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Stephanie Quintrell has been made the new Chair of the Forces Additional Needs and Disability Forum (FANDF).
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Seven new schools for children with special educational needs and disability (SEND) are to be built in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Merton and Norfolk, the government has announced.
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New research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows unpaid carers are being pushed into poverty due to the loss in earnings from caring for a loved one.
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Members of the Care and Support Alliance (CSA) have called on the government to make good on its manifesto promise and deliver the pledge made four years ago to “fix the crisis in social care once and for all”.
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The government has published a Disability Action Plan outlining how it aims to improve the lives of disabled people in the UK.
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NHS England has published a clinical guide for frontline staff to support the management of patients with a learning disability and autistic people. 
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There are significant gaps in the availability of holiday childcare in England, with drops across all categories of provision over the past year including provision for disabled children.
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The world’s only global job board for disabled people, Evenbreak, aired its first TV commercial this week.
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More than half of households experiencing food insecurity, and three quarters of people referred to food banks say that they or a member of their household are disabled, according to new research from The Trussell Trust.
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