Changes to benefits
Read our summary of how the Government’s cuts will impact people with a severe learning disability and their families
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 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The government are consulting on new draft guidance
Annual Health Checks
We are seriously concerned that targets around annual health checks have been removed from the NHS's list of priorities
Challenge Newsletter Winter 2024: Working Together, Driving Change
Read the winter 2024 edition of the CBF's newsletter 'Challenge'.
Latest News: TV Edwards
Law firm TV Edwards have successfully secured an admission that a child with complex disabilities, including a learning disability, had her human rights breached