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The report follows weeks of speculation about whether the Department for Education (DfE), as part of its planned Schools White Paper due for publication in September, will remove the right to an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) for children attending mainstream schools.

After the late departure of a flight was blamed on her, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has described how humiliated she felt. While it was not her fault, she said the captain announced the delay in leaving was “because of the wheelchair”.

An eight-year-old boy from the West Midlands who is unable to walk after being born with spinal cord injury is featured on a BBC Radio 4 Appeal this week to raise funds for Newlife, The Charity for Disabled Children, which recently provided him with a specialist wheelchair.

A coroner has issued a damning report against an NHS hospital trust following the entirely preventable death of a 31-year-old autistic man with learning disabilities, branding the attitude of doctors “dismissive and complacent”.

Born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, Fats Timbo documents her experiences of being – as she describes it – ‘a little person,’ and after first appearing on our TV screens in The Undateables back in 2018, last year she was part of Channel 4’s team bringing us the Paralympics coverage from Paris.