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A couple whose son has a rare genetic skin condition say it is hard to process that a cuddle could “tear his skin”. Twenty month old Albi was born with a severe form of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), a disorder which causes his skin to break out in blisters or tear with the slightest friction.

Council deficits in England could spiral to “absurd” levels in excess of £8bn in less than three years without radical reform of special educational needs funding, a leading economics thinktank has said.

Despite being non-verbal 17-year-old Troy McKay has used his voice to create a unique choir. Troy is a pupil at Fleming Fulton Special School in Belfast, and communicates through an app on his wheelchair.

A disabled campaigner claims the disability charity RNIB has “washed its hands” of those with the most significant levels of visual impairment, after scrapping its long-established free braille transcription service.

Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer Frances Ryan reveals how that is changing – and what more needs to be done.