A Sheffield boy with special educational needs has missed out on much of his senior schooling because the city council did not provide suitable alternative education for him. That’s the official finding of the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman. The Ombudsman has asked the Sheffield City Council to pay the boy and his mother […]

Emotional Problem Solving Ltd was originally launched in 2006, and closed in 2010 so that Founder and Director, Lavinia Dowling, could return to university. Two years later, she completed her Masters in Professional Practice (Emotional Problem Solving), after which she named her company and model of care.

There has been a “marked increase” in children diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance (PDA), according to an expert psychologist. The expert is Sally Kane, a specialist at the UK’s leading authority on PDA, the Elizabeth Newson Centre in Nottinghamshire.

The mother of a young boy with autism says his primary school forced him to stay in a small room alone with her and a teaching assistant for nearly two months. Stacey Jackson, 30, from West Lothian, Scotland, says son Andrew Robertson, nine, was kept apart for almost the entire period he spent at East […]

The extra £2bn that Chancellor Philip Hammond handed to social care will not end the funding crisis in the sector, a charity has warned.