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Home-to-school transport costs in England have risen to £2.3bn a year, as increasing numbers of children with special educational needs and disabilities travel farther afield to schools that can meet their requirements, according to a report.

A mum has said her local hospital’s failure to install the right kind of toilets to change her disabled daughter means the teenager is sometimes left sitting in her own waste. Natalie Frost’s 16-year-old daughter Sienna has cerebral palsy and regularly attends appointments at Peterborough City Hospital – but the hospital does not have a specialist toilet with a hoist which means her mother is often forced to change her on the floor.

Specialist ADHD services for adults in England are stopping taking on new patients as they struggle to cope with demand, a BBC investigation has shown. The BBC has identified 15 local areas that have closed waiting lists and another 31 that have introduced tighter criteria, making it more difficult to access support.

Films such as Frankenstein still use disability as shorthand for moral depravity. But human behaviour is far scarier than human appearance…

Autism charities are important organisations. They provide essential services for autistic people, influence policy decisions, and often speak on behalf of autistic people. However, this study shows that the language and images large autism charities use mainly portray autistic people as a problem.