Press releases
Journalists wanting to receive regular press releases from NDCS should email news@ndcs.org.uk detailing the areas they are interested in and their contact details. Please do not contact the press office if you are not a member of the press.
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Funding for deaf children’s education in Warwickshire under threat
- 28 January 2012 –28 February 2012
Parents of deaf children in Warwickshire are today [Saturday 28 January] launching a campaign against Warwickshire County Council as it pulls education funding for 100 deaf children, a move which the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) warns is jeopardising deaf children’s future.
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Salford council cuts threaten deaf children’s education
- 20 January 2012 –31 December 2012
Families of deaf children in Salford are urgently calling on Salford City Council to halt cuts to learning support for deaf children, as plans to halve the council’s specialist team are uncovered.
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Primary school results make ‘stark’ reading for deaf children
- 15 December 2011 –15 December 2012
Deaf children are at risk of being left behind in the Government’s literacy and numeracy drive, warns the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS), as statistics out today show that almost two thirds of deaf children (64 per cent) are leaving primary school without grasping simple sums and sentences (i).





