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Sade Oram, 25, and her younger sister Topaz, 23, were diagnosed profoundly deaf as toddlers and fitted with cochlear implants. The pair, from Warminster in Wiltshire, describe the Auditory Verbal Therapy they received as a main contributor to their “success in life”, a service that helped them to listen and speak.

The government’s policy of opening more and more special schools is stripping funding from mainstream settings and handing it to profit-making bodies, disabled campaigners have warned.

Visually-impaired people are calling for an end to so-called floating bus stops where cycle lanes go behind the stop. Kevin Greenan, from Greater Manchester, who is part of a delegation delivering a petition to Prime minister Rishi Sunak later, said the stops are dangerous for people with limited or no sight.

The two-child limit policy, introduced in 2017, restricts means-tested benefits like Universal Credit and Child Tax Credits to the first two children in most households. As a result, affected families miss out on benefits worth over £3,000 a year per extra child after the second.

An autistic Derby girl prone to bolting from her family and into danger has had her life changed by an assistance dog. Alessa, aged eight, had always been “a bit of a runner”, mum Donna says. But after she was hit by a car, her parents thought about getting extra help.