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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

Online launch event to share learning from the What Matters to Me project

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.

Read our summary of how the Government’s cuts will impact people with a severe learning disability and their families

Westminster launch of innovative project ‘What Matters to Me’ in front of wide range of stakeholders

Law firm TV Edwards have successfully secured an admission that a child with complex disabilities, including a learning disability, had her human rights breached

The BBC have broadcast a programme revealing the abuse and neglect of children with learning disabilities

The reception, 'Reforming the Mental Health Act and upholding the rights of children, young people, and adults with learning disabilities and who are autistic', brought together a wide range of stakeholders to drive change