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Waiting for a CAMHS referral can take a long time. Here are some of the places that can support you during this time.

The number of UK councils with potentially unlawful restrictions on the provision of essential equipment to disabled children has dropped by more than a third in just one year thanks to a campaign by Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children.

Many new cars for sale in the not-too-distant future will be powered by electricity, with a complete ban on conventionally-fuelled new cars being mooted as soon as 2030. But what does this mean for people with a disability? UCAN2 magazine tells us more about electric cars.

The Council’s Local Offer and the rest of the Council website is now supported by the accessibility tool called Browsealoud. It makes the website accessible to those who require online reading support. This includes those with learning difficulties such as dyslexia, mild visual impairments and those with English as a second language. It works by reading web pages aloud in a human-sounding voice. The user simply hovers their mouse pointer over the text to hear it read aloud. You can find the icon in the bottom right of any webpage.