A couple who set up an internet support community for fellow parents of children with special needs hope it can become a charity due to its success. Debbi Robertson and partner Graham Brockie, of Portlethen, Aberdeenshire, set up Extra Special Parents two years ago after daughter Willow was born. Willow had a rare congenital condition and they felt "upset and isolated".
The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference today backed measures to improve support for children with special educational needs (SEN).
The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference today backed plans to radically transform the NHS into a 'people's health service' by empowering individuals and decentralising control to local communities. The measures will set the NHS free from central government control, make it accountable to the people it serves through elected health boards and deliver high quality services to all guaranteed in a 'Patient's Contract'.
Following a debate at the Assembly plenary session yesterday, Carers Wales is delighted that Assembly Members voted unanimously in favour of Helen Mary Jones' legislative competence order (LCO).
A grandmother has said she will go blind unless she can persuade her local NHS to fund drug treatment.
A day care centre which looks after adults with learning difficulties has won a temporary reprieve from closure.