The CBF writes topical articles regularly and produces two newsletters a year, providing opinion and resources for families and professionals.
A family carer shares their lived experience of Pica, both as a parent to a daughter Erin, aged 6 who is non-verbal and has a severe learning disability and global developmental delay, and as a sister to David, aged 36, who has autism, a severe learning disability and is non-verbal.
Following hearings last October, the UK Supreme Court has today overturned the 2014 ‘Cheshire West’ definition of deprivation of liberty.
31st May 2026 marks 15 years since the Panorama documentary Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed revealed the abuse of people with learning disabilities at Winterbourne View Hospital and shone a light on the wider practice of detaining people with learning disabilities and autistic people in hospitals.
This week, the CBF submitted our response to the Government’s consultation on SEND reform in England. We are grateful to the parents who completed our survey and spoke with us, providing detailed insight into their experiences and the barriers they faced in accessing support, which has helped to inform our response.
The CBF is pleased to announce Making it Matter, a new flagship UK wide project to increase direct engagement with young people with severe learning disabilities.
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
