The Helpful Podcast

Covering everything from disability benefits, special education, health and diagnosis, and accessing social care, The Helpful Podcast for families with disabled children is another way for you to access invaluable and trusted information. Thanks to Contact!

Derby Children’s Health has a new website

Derby Healthcare Trust has a new website, to keep contacts as paper light as possible. So most of the information previously given to you will be online. There is also general advice, contact numbers for support locally and nationally and an up-to-date clinic list...

Autism App

Ethan Shallcross, an 18-year-old software developer with autism, has created an iOS app called Amuni to help those on the autistic spectrum in their day-to-day lives. Ethan, who is from Torquay, developed Aumi to enable people to manage their anxiety, monitor their...

Home-to-school transport aged 5-16

IPSEA is frequently contacted by parents facing difficulties with home-to-school transport. The law in this area is quite complicated and there is a lot of confusion around what a local authority’s duties are. There is more detail about this in IPSEA’s information on...