Disabled Children Review
Earlier this year the finding of the Government’s Disabled Children Review was published. The aim of the review is to work towards ensuring that every disabled child can have the best possible start in life, the support they and their families need to make equality of opportunity a reality, allowing each and every child to fulfil their potential.
The review identified three priority areas to improve outcomes for disabled children:
- Access and empowerment by setting clear standard or “core offer” to make it clear what entitlements and services disabled children, young people and their families can expect from public services with a view to benchmarking provision across the country.
- Responsive services and timely support by ensuring that all disabled children and their families can benefit from responsive and flexible services as soon as they need them and making disabled children a priority at both a local and national level, improving benchmarking of early intervention practices and setting up a transition support programme at the critical transition to adulthood.
- Improving quality and capacity by focusing on boosting the provision of vital public services, such as short breaks for disabled children, particularly those with complex healthcare needs, childcare, community equipment and wheelchair provision and making universal services more accessible for disabled children.
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