This book addresses areas identified by the English National Board as essential for student nurses. However, the appeal would be wider than this, and includes paediatricians, trainees, therapists and family doctors. Those in education would find some of the chapters very relevant too, and would be heartened by the recognition of the overlap between health needs and education needs in the lives of children and young people with disabilities.

There are a number of very useful and apposite chapters that I have been dipping into over the last months when I should have been writing this …