Campaigners say efforts to overturn US court rulings dismissing a link between vaccinations and autism could have major implications for UK families. UK group Justice, Awareness and Basic Support (JABS) made the claim following moves to revisit key US test...

A father has called for greater regulation of schools that restrain and seclude young people with autism.  He spoke out after a special school paid compensation to his family, who say their son was abused there. Baston House School, in Kent, made...

The father of a boy with autism has approached 26 Dublin schools in a fruitless attempt to find a class for his son. Ian Diamond says he and his wife Josie have searched across the Irish capital to try to...

A mental health hospital for patients with autism and learning disabilities has been rated inadequate and placed in special measures.  Care watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has taken the action against St Andrew’s Healthcare Nottinghamshire, based in Mansfield. The CQC’s...

Almost nine in ten UK families say their disabled child has experienced restraint, new research shows. The research comes from the Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF) and Positive and Active Behaviour Support Scotland (PABSS). And while the organisations found that nearly 88...

Schools using zero-tolerance policies to discipline children with learning disabilities are likely to fall foul of the law. That’s the view of expert education lawyer Erin Smart. She issued the warning as education watchdog Ofsted produced new guidance on behaviour....

A campaigning lawyer says it’s time to reinvestigate links between autism and vaccines. Robert F Kennedy made the claim after persuading leading neurologist Dr Andrew Zimmerman to sign an affidavit saying vaccines may cause autism in some children. Kennedy says...

Mental health hospitals subjected up to 100 people to face-down restraint last October, NHS data shows. The figure reveals that the practice is still widespread, despite the UK Government issuing guidance in 2014 with the intention of phasing it out. The guidance described...

A leading doctor who backed vaccine safety has signed a sworn statement saying inoculations can cause autism in some cases. US paediatric neurologist Dr Andrew Zimmerman says vaccine fever and immune stimulation could cause autism in a subset of children...

Hundreds of thousands of lives could be transformed by government plans to cut health inequalities for those with autism, says a charity. The National Autistic Society (NAS) says the government’s new long-term plan for the NHS is a “once in...