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Nearly a million young people have yet to claim their Child Trust Funds, MPs have warned. However, children who lack capacity are particularly affected, with an estimated 80,000 having to rely on their families to go through a lengthy, often costly court process to access their savings. Harry is one of those 80,000. His mum, Ramandeep Kaur, has saved more than £7,000 in his savings account – assuming he would be able to access it like his older brother.

Deaf scientists and sign language experts have updated British Sign Language (BSL) to include climate change-related terms like “greenhouse gas” and “carbon footprint”. There were no official signs for these, meaning children, teachers and scientists would often have to finger-spell long, complex, scientific terms. The change added 200 new terms to BSL.

Progress has stalled for disabled people in British society, the chief executive of ParalympicsGB has said, as he seeks to move his organisation on to a more activist footing. Dave Clarke, who stepped into the role this year, will try to emulate the 124-medal total of Tokyo at the Paralympic Games in Paris next year. He says, however, that it would be “disingenuous” of the organisation not to use its platform to try to drive change off the field of play, too.

More than half of government departments have ignored new legislation that was supposed to boost the use of British Sign Language (BSL) in their communications, a new report has revealed. The report shows how often each department offered a British Sign Language (BSL) version of government publications and announcements or a BSL interpreter for press conferences in the first year of the new British Sign Language (BSL) Act.

With a seven-fold rise in diagnoses of autism in the past 20 years in the UK, studies showing one in 36 children could be on the spectrum and waiting lists for help and support at record highs, awareness of neurodiversity has never been so high. Now, key voices are arguing that some autistic people could no longer be considered as having a disability at all. Instead, their autism could be regarded as part of their personality.