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Sign our petition today to ensure every child with epilepsy has an Individual Healthcare Plan in school.
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Sign our petition today to ensure every child with epilepsy has an Individual Healthcare Plan in school.
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Inspired by the story of Cash, who faced exclusion from a football camp due to his epilepsy, former premiership footballer, Jay Bothroyd, joined us for a day of football skills and coaching at a fun football session in the Easter holidays.
Here's what you all did for Purple Day...
A half-day course for teachers, to increase their understanding of epilepsy as a long-term condition, and demonstrate how to administer emergency medication.
Young Epilepsy is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Devlin as its new Chief Executive.
Celebrate the festive season by entering our simple epilepsy quiz
Arguably, there aren't enough books out there that cover epilepsy, regardless of whether they're fiction or non-fiction. Here, we recommend a small handful that have been published in recent years...
Thanks to donations made to BBC Children in Need during the annual telethon campaign taking place every November, Young Epilepsy has continued to support children and young people with epilepsy in London.
Since November 2018, specialist doctors (consultants) have been able to prescribe cannabis-based medicines for children with complex childhood epilepsy. There is some evidence to show that cannabis-based medicines can reduce seizures in complex childhood epilepsy. However, with the exception of pharmaceutically prepared CBD the NHS does not routinely prescribe and fund these treatments.
While epilepsy is no laughing matter, one man is turning 'comedy on' for Young Epilepsy.
10,000 children with absence seizures need faster diagnosis, treatment and support.
For this Hallowe'en, Young Epilepsy is urging you to be spookily creative for a good cause.