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
News
The CBF writes topical articles regularly and produces three newsletters a year, providing opinion and resources for families and professionals.
What Matters to Me Online Launch Event
Online launch event to share learning from the What Matters to Me project
New report launched: The experiences of family carers of people with learning disabilities during Covid-19 and the ‘new normal’
Over five years have passed since the first national lockdown in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic but the impact is still being felt. It is important to learn from the experiences of family carers of people with learning disabilities during this time.
Changes to benefits
Read our summary of how the Government’s cuts will impact people with a severe learning disability and their families
What Matters to Me Launch at the House of Commons
Westminster launch of innovative project ‘What Matters to Me’ in front of wide range of stakeholders
Lifeways: ITV News uncover neglect of people with learning disabilities in supported living
An investigation by ITV News has exposed allegations of multiple failings at residential and supported living homes run by Lifeways
File on 4 highlights inappropriate detention of people with a learning disability and autistic people
A BBC radio programme shows how the current system means that people with a learning disability and autistic people get stuck in mental health hospitals
Damages paid following inappropriate detention of person with learning disabilities
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust have paid damages to ‘AP’, who was inappropriately detained for 340 days because of a lack of suitable community support
Restraint in Schools in England
The government are consulting on new draft guidance