The CBF writes topical articles regularly and produces two newsletters a year, providing opinion and resources for families and professionals.
In response to the publication of the Safeguarding Practice Review concerning Whitefield School, the CBF highlights the need for the misuse of restrictive practices to be recognised as a child protection issue and for the practice of seclusion to be banned in schools.
The most recent LeDeR report shows that people with severe and profound learning disabilities are continuing to die at a young age from treatable conditions. The CBF has serious concerns that the programme work to reduce and monitor this is being deprioritised.
CQC have published their learning from the 2024-25 IC(E)TR programme: read our response
Today (2nd July), The CBF are pleased to launch our new report on transition to adulthood
Read the Summer 2026 edition of our newsletter Challenge
Following abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in Northern Ireland, the Inquiry has published a report making recommendations
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.
