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Transplant ruling may set a precedent

A mother who won the right for her autistic son to receive a kidney transplant says she wants the case to “set a precedent”. Ami McLennan fought medics who said giving son William, 17, a transplant was futile. William, who...

Discrimination rife in NI schools

Northern Ireland has passed a new law to bolster support services for autistic people. Members of the province’s legislative assembly (MLAs) backed the Autism Amendment Bill last week. However, a leading lawyer said more needed to be done to tackle...

Challenge to end of Covid restrictions

A disabled law student is fighting the end of Covid restrictions because she says it puts the most vulnerable at risk. Fleur Perry has crowdfunded to pay lawyers Rook Irwin Sweeney to bring a court challenge to the UK Government’s...

Gene findings may point to therapies

New research into genes and brain cells may point to the development of autism therapies. The scientists grew organ models of a part of the brain to analyse cell abnormalities in autism. The researchers grew an organoid model of the...

Judge rules training can go on to age 26

Education and training for young people with special needs can continue up to their 26th birthday, a judge has ruled. The ruling came after mum Evelyn Ashford argued her son Jasper should be able to continue his training after the...

Long-stay hospital ‘understaffed’

Four out of six mental health wards at a hospital trust that houses people with autism and learning disabilities were understaffed, inspectors found. The inspection of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust found it “requires improvement overall”. Watchdog the Care Quality...

Give disabled Covid jab, judges rule

Judges have ruled that disabled adults who cannot make decisions for themselves should be vaccinated against coronavirus (Covid-19). The Court of Protection intervened in a case last May. It involved a dispute between parents over whether their disabled son should...

Study finds causes of premature death

Multiple health problems and overmedication underlie premature deaths in people with learning disabilities and epilepsy, say researchers. And the findings suggest there is no coherent approach to treatment and risk. Epilepsy affects one in four Up to 25 per cent...

We pay a fortune to harm people, says MP

Hundreds of millions are spent on services that harm people with autism and learning disabilities. That’s the view of Sir Robert Buckland, Member of Parliament for South Swindon and an autism father. Buckland’s adult daughter is autistic. He told the...

Children suffer ‘systemic failings’

Children with special needs in Northern Ireland are being sold short by “systemic failings” within the province’s Education Authority (EA). That’s the view of Rachel Hogan, a legal adviser at Belfast-based charity the Children’s Law Centre. Hogan’s comments come after...

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