This report sets out a summary of the key responses to the consultation questions in 'Support and aspiration', current progress and further plans for the vision in the Green Paper.
Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
Published Date: 15/05/2012
This resource, has primarily been designed to support the training and development of key workers and other practitioners providing intense support for families with multiple and complex needs.
Publisher: Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
Published Date: 22/02/2012
This suite of tools offer a guide to commissioners and service providers to improve the system, services and outcomes for children and young people with speech, language and communication difficulties.
Effective commis ...
Publisher: Healthcare Professionals Commissioning Network (HCPCN)
Published Date: 22/02/2012
This report seeks to present a detailed assessment of the progress made by the pilot sites over the original two-year programme. The report focuses on the means by which the pilots were set-up and delivered, and the reso ...
Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
Published Date: 28/07/2011
The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability
Publisher: World Health Organisation (WHO)
Published Date: 09/06/2011
This document shares the findings of a Department of Health review of the contribution community children's nursing services, as a key component of community children's services, can make to the future outcomes of integr ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 25/03/2011
Proposals which would mean the biggest programme of reform in the education and health support for children with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities in 30 years
Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
Published Date: 09/03/2011
The Scottish Government has published the National Review of Services for Disabled Children, developed jointly with COSLA and the For Scotland's Disabled Children (FSDC) Liaison Project. The report includes a plan of act ...
Publisher: The Scottish Government
Published Date: 28/02/2011
This review was commissioned to evaluate how well the legislative framework and arrangements served children and young people who had special educational needs and/or disabilities. It considered the early years, compulso ...
Publisher: Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skill
Published Date: 14/09/2010
This guide provides a framework to assist staff in hospitals as well as the commissioners and providers in Primary Care Trusts when negotiating and planning the discharge of children and young people with high support n ...
Publisher: National Children's Bureau (NCB)
Published Date: 28/04/2010
This framework sets out an equitable, transparent and timely process for assessing, deciding and agreeing bespoke packages of continuing care for those children and young people under the age of 18 who have continuing ca ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 29/03/2010
The Core Offer sets out in one place a national statement of expectations for how disabled children and their families will be informed and involved as their needs are assessed and the necessary services are delivered. ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 18/03/2009
This guidance will help local authorities and primary care trusts deliver a programme to provide short breaks for disabled children, a central component of a wider change programme for disabled children's services.
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 21/07/2008
The document from the DH, sets the future direction for children's palliative care services
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 21/02/2008
A transition guide for all services: key information for professionals about the transition process for disabled young people, provides an overarching view of all the services that need to work together to ensure appropr ...
Publisher: Every Child Matters (ECM)
Published Date: 31/10/2007
On 13 December 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted a new Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.
Publisher: Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
Published Date: 26/10/2007
The disabled children's review will improve service provision across the board for disabled children and their families, enhancing equality and opportunity for them. The review focuses on three priority areas to improve ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 23/05/2007
The development of the children's trust model for delivery of local services is at the heart of key legislation and policy regarding all children and young people. Alongside the Every Child Matters Agenda the development ...
Publisher: The Council for Disabled Children
Published Date: 22/02/2007
This report aims to remedy the past failings within the health care system. It is the product of an inter-disciplinary working group, expertly chaired by Dr John Tripp on behalf of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Ch ...
Publisher: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
Published Date: 29/01/2007
Disabled children are more vulnerable to abuse or neglect than non-disabled children. This resource is intended to help those with a strategic or planning responsibility for children understand their particular needs and ...
Publisher: Every Child Matters (ECM)
Published Date: 13/06/2006
The Good Practice Guide, published in March 2006, aims to show that the handover from children's and young people's services to adult services should be planned and managed as a process. The Guide suggests how this can b ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 23/03/2006
This guide aims to support healthcare organisations in their work with local authorities and other partners to develop children#s palliative care services. It will help commissioners of health services to apply the child ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 19/12/2005