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Alison Lapper was pregnant with her son Parys when she famously, and controversially, posed naked for a statue that was displayed on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth in 2005. On BBC Sounds, she talks about life, art, parenting and grief.

From the women manhandled out of their wheelchairs to the man forced to drag himself along a plane floor, this searing documentary is packed with horrors that will be painfully familiar to many people with disabilities.

An app immediately translating train announcements into British Sign Language has been launched. South Western Railway is trialing ‘Signapse’, which uses AI generated images to deliver information to deaf passengers.

Special Needs Jungle is in conversation with Brian Lamb OBE, a stalwart proponent of effective parental engagement being central to making SEND work well in schools and strategically in LAs.

NHS 111 is now offering mental health support to adults and children. People in England calling the helpline can now select a mental health option to speak to a trained professional, who will give them urgent help or guide them to other services.