The CBF writes topical articles regularly and produces two newsletters a year, providing opinion and resources for families and professionals.
Family carers and young people, supported by the CBF and children’s charity Kids have been to 10 Downing Street, to ask the Prime Minister to improve the experience of young people when they move from child to adult services
The CBF welcomes action on safeguarding – it is essential that the new National Safeguarding Board brings together learning with national accountability
A Statement on the Use of Restrictive Interventions: Children and young people with a learning disability in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Challenging Behaviour Foundation urges the Department for Education to introduce national training standards following the publication of updated guidance on restrictive interventions.
Read the Winter 2025 edition of our newsletter Challenge
Following years of campaigning by families, people with learning disabilities and autistic people, the Mental Health Bill has finally received Royal Assent. The law will change so that people with learning disabilities and autistic people cannot be detained in mental health hospitals unless they have a mental health condition that needs treatment.
The CBF welcomes the Law Commission’s recommendations, informed by families, including the call for the law to change so transition planning starts at age 14 .
The latest 2023 LeDeR report, published yesterday (02/09/25) finds, as in previous years, that people with learning disabilities die early because of poor care, a lack of co-ordination and failures to provide proactive treatment. These deaths could be avoided.
