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New government research has proved disabled activists were right to warn that receiving employment advice on top of NHS talking therapy would push many people with mental distress further away from the jobs market.

While disability representation on screen in the TV and film industry is improving, barriers for disabled people working behind the camera remain. Multi-award-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne, whose credits include Adolescence, Falling, Toxic Town and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, has spent years using his platform to improve access for those working behind the scenes.

‘I’m having a flare-up’, is a really common phrase that you hear in the ‘crip’ community,” says Mariana Lemos, the co-curator of Flare Up, a group exhibition focused on art powered by illness, chronic conditions, disability, neurodivergence and deafness. The show includes artists who do and don’t identify as ‘crip’ (a defiant reclaiming of derogatory slang) and underlines the ebb and flow of symptoms to explore illness as anything but static.

FIFA has announced that every match at the 2026 FIFA World Cup will feature sign language interpretation broadcasts as part of efforts to improve accessibility for fans with disabilities.

Changes to special educational needs provision in England could be thwarted by “academic attainment at all costs” policies that prioritise exam results and punish inclusive schools, headteachers have said in response to a government consultation.