New funding rules will make specialist college places for disabled young adults even harder to get, and could threaten the colleges' very existence.
Born with a rare neurological condition, 19-year-old Joe Rae has learning difficulties and problems with speech and motility. He is a student at National Star College in Cheltenham, a specialist residential college for young people with complex physical disabilities, where he has hydrotherapy, physiotherapy, lessons in music, dance and life skills and, in his mother's words, has made "extraordinary" progress. Click here for more
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