Every Disabled Child Matters Campaign
The Every Disabled Child Matters Campaign recently published data which indicates:
- there are approximately 770,000 disabled children in the UK
- it costs 3 times as much to bring up a disabled child as it does a non-disabled child
- up to ¾ of families with disabled children live in unsuitable housing
- disabled children are at high risk of poverty as a result of low household incomes with many parent of disabled children unable to work because of care responsibilities and lack of/or costs of appropriate childcare
- at least 100,000 families who are eligible for Disability Living Allowance are currently missing out.
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accuracy of any particular statement. In the case of specific problems
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