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Charities challenge minister over funding threat to new special school eye test service

by Charlotte Dolman | Jun 5, 2024 | Parents & Carers

Ministers are considering cutting back funding for the long-awaited roll of out NHS eye testing for pupils in all English special schools due to be launched this year. According to the Association of Optometrists (AOP), reported in Optometry Today, the government...

Sisters want Auditory Verbal Therapy available on NHS

by Charlotte Dolman | Jun 3, 2024 | Parents & Carers

Sade Oram, 25, and her younger sister Topaz, 23, were diagnosed profoundly deaf as toddlers and fitted with cochlear implants. The pair, from Warminster in Wiltshire, describe the Auditory Verbal Therapy they received as a main contributor to their “success in...

Anger over government’s ‘gleeful’ announcement of yet more special schools

by Charlotte Dolman | May 31, 2024 | Parents & Carers

The government’s policy of opening more and more special schools is stripping funding from mainstream settings and handing it to profit-making bodies, disabled campaigners have warned.

Call for an end to cycle lanes behind bus stops

by Charlotte Dolman | May 29, 2024 | Parents & Carers

Visually-impaired people are calling for an end to so-called floating bus stops where cycle lanes go behind the stop. Kevin Greenan, from Greater Manchester, who is part of a delegation delivering a petition to Prime minister Rishi Sunak later, said the stops are...

Two child limit on benefits pushing families with disabled children further into poverty

by Charlotte Dolman | May 27, 2024 | Parents & Carers

The two-child limit policy, introduced in 2017, restricts means-tested benefits like Universal Credit and Child Tax Credits to the first two children in most households. As a result, affected families miss out on benefits worth over £3,000 a year per extra child after...
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