A deaf pupil lobbied ministers and MPs at the Conservative Party conference last week in an attempt to stop government cuts from hitting services for deaf and hearing-impaired children.
Ellen Arthur, 15, highlighted the work of the Stolen Futures campaign, being run by the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS), which aims to stop local authorities cutting provision such as note-takers and other classroom support.
Ellen, a pupil at Larkmead School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, met with Neil Carmichael, a member of the House of Commons Education Select Committee, and Edward Timpson, the new children’s minister, to discuss the plight of deaf children in education.
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