Welcome to the October 2026 policy updates. Please note policies are changing to a new format. Quality Statements are evidenced clearly at the start of the policy, and a detailed Procedures section has been clearly separated out in the policies. For structured details on these policy updates, please see this>

This article will be updated throughout October.

The Easy Read policies for England have had a complete image review. All images have been updated throughout the policies to comply with image licensing. Some typographical edits have been made to some of these Easy Read policies, e.g. missing full stops, a full stop replaced with a colon.

Released 17 October