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HMPPS Wales' Lead Psychologist, Mark Crane comments on brain injury in Wales

Today, as the Government’s Health and Care Bill, which proposes working together and supporting integration receives its second reading in the House of Commons, The Disabilities Trust’s CEO, Irene Sobowale reflects on the proposed Bill.

New statutory guidance will recognise that survivors of domestic abuse may have sustained an acquired brain injury (ABI) for the first time - following campaigning from the Disabilities Trust.

Today, The Disabilities Trust submits evidence on the need to support neurodiversity in the criminal justice system and our extensive experience in meeting the needs of offenders with a brain injury. The call for evidence was included in the Lord Chancellor’s Sentencing White Paper to further understand the prevalence and the quality of supportive provision available to neuro-divergent individuals in the criminal justice system.

The Disabilities Trust comments on today’s decision by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), confirming the use of extensive trials of concussion substitutes in Football to ensure that all head injuries are properly assessed off the field of play.

Head of Foundation, Jocelyn Gaynor comments on Rugby Football Union's concussion lawsuit.

To mark our 40th anniversary, Head of Foundation, Jocelyn Gaynor, shares highlights of The Disabilities Trust Foundation's work. This includes everything from guaranteeing screening for all prisoners with brain injuries caused by domestic violence, to a large-scale study of traumatic brain injury in homeless people in Leeds.

Kerwin Court presents Reviewing the neurobehavioural approach to rehabilitation... "If at first you don’t succeed…”: Why neurobehavioural approaches can help with brain injury rehabilitation when neurorehabilitation can’t.

The Disabilities Trust is pleased to share that following a meeting with Victoria Atkins MP, Minister for Safeguarding, all prisoners in England will be screened for Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) sustained through domestic abuse from April 2021.

We are proud that earlier this year we launched the updated version of the BIRT Memory and Information Processing Battery, a series of tests which can be used to understand how good someone’s memory is.