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The National Deaf Children’s Society is urging the Government to transform children’s hearing services in England, warning that delays in identifying and supporting deaf children can have significant lifelong consequences. The charity’s new report, Early intervention, lifelong impact. A call to redesign children’s hearing services in England, sets out vital recommendations to improve services following the findings of the independent Kingdon Review.

We have published a new report urging the Government to transform children’s hearing services in England. Our report sets out vital recommendations to improve services. It highlights why it's so important to identify deaf children early and provide support to families as soon as possible. Improvements to children's hearing services in England are urgently needed.

The National Deaf Children’s Society has stepped in to support deaf children and their families who had previously been receiving auditory verbal therapy through the charity Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK), which closed in May 2026. AVUK provided specialist auditory verbal therapy to support listening, speech and language development for deaf children. Auditory verbal therapy is an early-intervention approach for deaf children aged 0 to 5 to develop spoken language.

There’s a lot of new terminology in the Governments new proposals for SEND - but what does it really mean for your child day to day? In our last blog, we looked at when changes might happen and the focus on inclusion in schools. In this blog, we’re breaking down the proposed new levels of SEN support so you can understand what they could mean in practice.

If you’ve been hearing about changes to SEND and wondering what they mean for your child, you’re not alone. We’ve reviewed the proposals in detail and spoken directly with the Department for Education and Ministers. There’s a lot to cover, so this is the first in a short series where we’ll explore what the changes may mean in practice for deaf children. When will things change? The first thing to say is that nothing is changing right now – and won’t for some time.

The National Deaf Children’s Society has cautiously welcomed the Government’s £1.8 billion commitment to fund specialist staff to support mainstream schools, saying it could make a “real difference” for deaf children - but only if it leads to a significant increase in qualified Teachers of the Deaf. As part of its Schools White Paper, Every Child Achieving and Thriving, the UK Government has announced a new “Experts at Hand” service, backed by £1.8 billion over three years.

The National Deaf Children's Society has welcomed the publication of an independent review, published today, which sets out a series of recommendations to fix England’s broken children’s hearing services. The Kingdon Review was commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, after a series of catastrophic failures were uncovered in paediatric audiology services in some areas of England.

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