Challenge Newsletter Winter 2025: Enabling full and active lives
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The CBF writes topical articles regularly and produces three newsletters a year, providing opinion and resources for families and professionals.
Mental Health Bill becomes law – CBF statement
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.
Read the CBF’s statement in response to the Law Commission Review of Disabled Children’s Social Care
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 .
People with learning disabilities are dying when their deaths are avoidable: moving from learning to action – CBF’s statement on the 2023 LeDeR report
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.
The CBF's statement on preventable deaths of people with learning disabilities
The CBF joins more than 40 organisations and campaigners calling on the Government to take action to ensure people with learning disabilities do not die early, preventable deaths
ITV News story highlights the impact of detaining people with a learning disability and autistic people in hospital
An investigation by ITV shows that people with a learning disability and autistic people who are detained under the Mental Health Act are subject to restraint and overmedication
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MPs call for a plan to develop community support for people with a learning disability and autistic people
During the Mental Health Bill’s second reading in the House of Commons, MPs highlighted the importance of strong community support
BBC News at Ten Broadcast on Seclusion
BBC News at Ten reports on a child being held in a prone restraint within a seclusion room at Springwell Leeds Academy North