PAST offers training for teaching and support staff to equip them to help their neurodivergent learners meet their potential.

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.