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Meet Hattie Mander, the 7-year-old fundraising superstar who bravely cut her long locks to help raise vital funds for Contact. Hattie has an autistic cousin called Arthur who Contact supports, as well as other family members supported by Young Epilepsy. She wanted to help more families with additional needs like theirs, so she decided to fundraise for the two charities by braving a big hair chop.

Children in England experience huge variations in having their special educational needs identified depending on school type, background and levels of absence, according to research by the Education Policy Institute (EPI).

A train carriage has been converted into a library for pupils at a special school, Ivy House in Derby. The library, which includes the carriage’s original chairs and outside is a departures board announcing Derby Railway Station’s live train information, was officially opened by Googlebox star Baasit Siddiqui.

An army veteran has become the first disabled person to ski solo to the South Pole. It took Jonny Huntington 46 days to cross more than 500 miles of Antarctic ice. The 38-year-old from Devon suffered a stroke in 2014, which initially left him paralysed from the neck down on his left side.

The local government and social care ombudsman (LGO), which handles complaints about English councils, upheld 1,043 cases regarding Send provision in 2024 – nearly 40% more than in 2023, and four times more than the 258 upheld in 2021.