The CBF writes topical articles regularly and produces two newsletters a year, providing opinion and resources for families and professionals.
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.
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 .
The latest 2023 LeDeR report, published yesterday (02/09/25) finds, as in previous years, that people with learning disabilities die early because of poor care, a lack of co-ordination and failures to provide proactive treatment. These deaths could be avoided.
The CBF joins more than 40 organisations and campaigners calling on the Government to take action to ensure people with learning disabilities do not die early, preventable deaths
An investigation by ITV shows that people with a learning disability and autistic people who are detained under the Mental Health Act are subject to restraint and overmedication
BBC News at Ten reports on a child being held in a prone restraint within a seclusion room at Springwell Leeds Academy North
An investigation by ITV News has exposed allegations of multiple failings at residential and supported living homes run by Lifeways
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
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
