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Support our Thunderclap!
At the end of September we’ll be launching our new campaign Listen Up! to improve audiology services for deaf children and young people. We want to make sure as many people as possible know about our...
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International Week of the Deaf
22nd – 29th September, is International Week of the Deaf 2014. Many of Deaf Child Worldwide partner organisations will mark this week with a range of events and activities to raise awareness of...
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Listen Up! One-third of audiology services are failing deaf children
Email your MP now and ask them what they are going to do to help ensure that all deaf children receive a good quality audiology service. It’s shocking isn’t it? One-third of children’s audiology...
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Campaign win! Minister recommends the inspection of SEN services!
We are pleased to announce some Christmas cheer! Following a long-running campaign from NDCS, the Government has today announced that they are recommending the future inspection of local SEN services!...
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NEW Devon CCG abandons plans to ration hearing aids! Four reasons why this...
The North East and West (NEW) Devon CCG has confirmed that it has abandoned its decision to ration deaf patients over the age of 18 to just one NHS hearing aid. The policy to restrict hearing aids had...
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Listen Up! We want to share your videos with NHS England
We’re meeting with NHS England on the 5th March to talk about our Listen Up! campaign and we need your help! If you’re a parent of a deaf child or have used audiology services yourself, we would like...
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Action Plan on Hearing Loss
NHS England recently published their ‘Action Plan on Hearing Loss’. What is it and what do we think? What is the Action Plan on Hearing Loss? Well, in the words of NHS England ‘The purpose of the...
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Audiology services for deaf children – a review of the past five years
Continuing our series of blogs on the upcoming election, this blog takes a look at the government’s record on health and audiology services in England. What’s changed? One of the big changes over the...
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Elin’s Story – Glue ear and me
I had glue ear when I was about three or four years old. I don’t remember much about it, other than being told I had to eat copious amounts of ice cream after an operation to remove my tonsils and...
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Latest SEN stats raise concerns about impact of SEN reform
Last September, the Children and Families Act 2014 came into force, heralding big changes to how children with special educational needs (SEN) will be supported in education. The Department for...
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The NHS makes me feel like a drain on resources
I am 20 years old, a University student studying for my degree in Social Work. I am severely hard of hearing and have worn two hearing aids since birth. I am not blind to the harsh cuts the NHS has...
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Getting it right from the start
Today, we’re launching a new campaign in England, called Right from the Start. The campaign is celebrating 10 years of newborn hearing screening and how this simple and painless test has literally...
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Cast a spell on the inspectors…
With the evenings darkening as winter creeps in, the inspectors aren’t wasting any time. Round two of the Ofsted and CQC inspections into special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has kicked...
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NDCS does Disability History Month – Part 1
It’s UK Disability History Month so I thought I’d take the opportunity to outline key events in the history of the National Deaf Children’s Society. Over the past 75 years, tremendous progress has been...
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General election 2017: Uninspected audiology services
Would you send your child to a school that hadn’t been inspected by Ofsted? Would you ride in a car that didn’t conform to industry safety standards? Would you eat in a restaurant that refused to take...
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Wales – Ask the Minister to make the right decision this summer!
The Minister for Lifelong Learning is making a big decision this summer – we need your help to persuade him to make For example, the proposed law would allow families to appeal to tribunal if they were...
View ArticleGrommet surgery not under threat
Recent headlines across the media have suggested that the NHS plan to cut some “ineffective” routine surgeries to save money. One of the treatments supposedly under threat is grommet surgery for...
View ArticleIt’s been too long! A call to update 2009 Safeguarding Disabled Children...
In 2009, the Government in England published guidance on safeguarding disabled children. Guidance which, when read now, seems a world away from the way social care is delivered, written and even spoken...
View ArticleSupporting children early — England 0 : Wales 1?
Recently I attended the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children (APPGC) which discussed the APPGC’s second report Storing Up Trouble on the state of children’s social care services and social care...
View ArticleHelp us support deaf children and young people
Back in 2014 the Government announced “a landmark moment in improving the lives of children with SEND and their families”. The 2014 Children and Families Act promised reforms that “put children and...
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