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A 12-year-old girl who helps her mother care for her brother will get to meet Prince Harry when she is given a special award. Anya was nominated by her mother Gemma in the Inspirational Sibling category of the WellChild Awards. Gemma said her daughter “does so much” to help her 15-year-old brother Edward, who was born with a chromosomal disorder and developmental delay. Anya, from Matlock in Derbyshire, will receive the award in London on 30 September.

Alison Lapper was pregnant with her son Parys when she famously, and controversially, posed naked for a statue that was displayed on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth in 2005. On BBC Sounds, she talks about life, art, parenting and grief.

From the women manhandled out of their wheelchairs to the man forced to drag himself along a plane floor, this searing documentary is packed with horrors that will be painfully familiar to many people with disabilities.

An app immediately translating train announcements into British Sign Language has been launched. South Western Railway is trialing ‘Signapse’, which uses AI generated images to deliver information to deaf passengers.

Special Needs Jungle is in conversation with Brian Lamb OBE, a stalwart proponent of effective parental engagement being central to making SEND work well in schools and strategically in LAs.