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‘Door could be open to abuse’ of disabled children due to DfE shelving advocacy plan, say leads

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Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The “door could be open to the abuse and neglect” of disabled children due to the government’s cost-driven decision to shelve a planned expansion of advocacy for the group. That was the message from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, as it led sector criticism of the Department for Education’s (DfE) decision to halt the previous government’s planned