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The latest figures from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) show that some areas of epilepsy care for children are improving, but access to services still varies greatly.
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The overwhelming response to our recent petition calling for governments to ensure every child with epilepsy has a current Independent Healthcare Plan (IHP) in school has shown just how critical this issue is.
It's National Epilepsy Week!
Come and join us at our first annual Summer Fete this June!
For parents of children with epilepsy
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.
