Political updates: June 2008
Youth participation
30 June 2008
Lord Morris asked what the Government was doing in response to NDCS's Big Plans launch.
TopData on deaf children
13 June 2008
The Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill got its second reading in the House of Lords. Baroness Walmsley spoke out for deaf children in the debate:
"I was surprised to discover in the briefing from the National Deaf Children’s Society the underachievement of deaf children.
"As it rightly points out, deafness is not a learning disability and there is no reason why deaf children should not achieve just as well as their hearing peers.
"I was staggered that deaf children are 42 per cent less likely than the average to achieve the expected level of attainment in their GCSEs and that that is the only known published statistic on the educational attainment of deaf children.
"We need to know more. There has apparently been no major government research into the issue since a literature review in 1998."
Youth participation
10 June 2008
NDCS hosted a reception at Westminster to tell a wide range of MPs and peers about our Big Plans to become a child-centred organisation.
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