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Across the UK, revelations of institutional abuse keep mounting up, yet people are still being denied basic respect.

Edward Enninful, the editor-in-chief of British Vogue, tells BBC he rejected major fashion brands as he promotes May issue featuring disabled cover stars.

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced funding for 10 new areas in England to deliver short breaks for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Each of the 10 areas will be given up to £1 million each for a year to work with families to develop innovative experiences that would otherwise be inaccessible to children because of their disability, as well as covering the costs of providing the activities.

A cat who alerts his deaf owner to visitors and phone calls is in the running for a national award. Zebby, a two-year-old black-and-white cat from Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, taps his owner Genevieve Moss’s face to alert her to put on her hearing aid. Ms. Moss said: “Without my hearing aid, I can’t hear anything, but now I have Zebby to help me.”

A wheelchair user said pharmacy chain Boots “should know better” after erecting a sign labelling parking spaces for “less abled” customers. The nationwide company has been forced to issue an apology – and hastily change the sign – following a public backlash on social media. The signage, beneath the symbol of a person in a wheelchair, was installed in the car park of the store at Riverside in Norwich.