The 2024 BACD annual conference 'Current evidence and management challenges in Cerebral Palsy' takes place 7 weeks today on Weds 19 June - in Sheffield + online!
Have you registered yet - early bird rates close soon!
For the full programme and to book 🡺 bacdis.org.uk/pages/asm2024

Join us on the 15th May 2024 (4:30pm AEST) for our next free AusACPDM listening and sharing session on the topic 'Cerebral Palsy Global Clinical Trials Network'

Click the link to register:
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🗣️New publication led by Lindsay Pennington! Read for free until June 13th using this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1i%7E7b6EIwS… 'The experience of children with disabilities and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic: what lessons can we learn?' RCPCH British Academy of Childhood Disability BACCH

We delighted to announce our 10 BACD-Castang Fellows for 2024:

Pipeline Fellowship: Claire Higgins, Raj Lodh, Jemma Wright Fiona Mckeown Ed Whittaker

Advanced Fellowship: Samantha Armitage Dr Lesley Katchburian Jill Massey 💙 Dr Bethan Page Rachel Rapson

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Today we launch Removing Barriers – our manifesto for special schools.

We're calling on the next government to take 6 urgent actions in its first 100 days to remove barriers and build a better SEND system. nasschools.org.uk/manifesto2024/

#NASSManifesto2024

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We’re pleased to share @newlifecharity’s new report, Fight For Our Future, which paints a bleak picture, revealing that only 2 in 5 families feel their child has all the equipment they need. We're urging our followers to read & share the report: newlife.support/fight-for-futu…

Are you a GRID trainee?
In case you missed the news, we now have flexible payment options for GRID trainees applying for the Paediatric Neurodisability Diploma. The course complements the Progress + training programme.
Apply now for September 2024. sheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk/about-us/caree…

We're excited to be hosting a webinar on Thursday 2nd May 2024 at 12:30pm to describe & demo our new data entry platform!

Secure your spot here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/17786e51…

There aren't many research jobs like this in childhood neurodisability! ⬇️ Come and work with us!

Have you seen & used the 'Occupational therapy and play practice guideline' we launched last summer? If so, I'd like to hear from you! How have you used the guideline? What impact has it had on your practice? Please get in touch to tell me more. rcot.co.uk/practice-resou…

Good quality referrals are key to helping children and young people access the occupational therapy they need – when they need it. 💚

Find more resources on making great OT referrals: loom.ly/a1Sua_Y

Professional Adviser Sally

Thank you Neil Harrower and colleagues for this excellent paper with tips on how to improve equality of outcomes for people with learning disabilities. Please read and share 👇

The UK could be the best place in the world to grow up. But right now, it isn’t.

Act today and join almost 25,000 others in signing the petition calling on the next Government to make good childhoods a national priority: buff.ly/3vOmAVq

#ChildrenAtTheTable

please do attend if able & interested in community child health research. hopefully lots of useful discussion - esp for those thinking about applying for funding Rakhee Shah Population, Policy and Practice Department British Academy of Childhood Disability RCPCH Specialist Children & Young People’s Services ELFT East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT)

Today we are launching our NEW report 'If Only You Knew' into the school experiences of siblings of disabled children. 202 young siblings responded to our survey. You can read the full report here. sibs.org.uk/ifonly/ Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou #Siblings

Register for our online study day on Tone Management on Fri 12 April to enhance your understanding of tone in children affected by neurological conditions and improve your clinical confidence in managing tone in both outpatient and acute settings
To book➡️ bacdis.org.uk/events/tone-ma…

Abstract submission closes at 9am tomorrow morning, Wednesday 3 April! bacdis.org.uk/pages/abstracts

In a huge win for disabled children and the free school meal disability inclusion campaign, the government has published its updated guidance on free school meals in England.

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To give you a few extra days over the Easter weekend, we have extended the deadline for abstract submission to 9am, Weds 3 April
Undergrad medical, AHP + nursing students & foundation drs selected to present their poster receive free registration
For info bacdis.org.uk/pages/abstracts