CBF Announces Making it Matter Project
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.
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CBF Delivers Open Letter to 10 Downing Street
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
Baroness Casey calls for immediate action to improve safeguarding: CBF response
The CBF welcomes action on safeguarding – it is essential that the new National Safeguarding Board brings together learning with national accountability
New Joint Statement on the Misuse of Restrictive Practices
A Statement on the Use of Restrictive Interventions: Children and young people with a learning disability in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Revised guidance on restrictive interventions in schools - CBF Statement
Challenging Behaviour Foundation urges the Department for Education to introduce national training standards following the publication of updated guidance on restrictive interventions.
Challenge Newsletter Winter 2025: Enabling full and active lives
Read the Winter 2025 edition of our newsletter Challenge
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 .