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62% of parent carers have given up work or reduced hours, on average losing £21,174 from their family income. Together with enormous energy bills and rising costs of getting a diagnosis, therapies and help at school, many families with disabled children are in an impossibly precarious financial situation.

62% of parent carers have given up work or reduced hours, on average losing £21,174 from their family income. Together with enormous energy bills and rising costs of getting a diagnosis, therapies and help at school, many families with disabled children are in an impossibly precarious financial situation.

Zoe Edge won a silver medal in boccia at the 1996 Paralympic Games and has gone on to dedicate her life to fundraising for various charitable causes. Now she has teamed up with a Chesterfield music producer to realise a lifelong dream to create her own music using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

The government should introduce tougher regulations on electric vehicles because of dangers to visually impaired people, a sight loss charity has said. A study published in May by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found pedestrians are twice as likely to be hit by an electric or hybrid vehicle than a petrol or diesel car, rising to three times in urban areas.

Lego is introducing several characters who wear sunflower lanyards to its brick universe for the first time to raise awareness of a badge worn to indicate someone has a hidden disability such as autism. The company says it hopes sunflower lanyard will help people ‘embrace diversity, value inclusivity and remove stigma’.