HELP!!!! I have become frustrated over the lack of assistance as a single parent to a 14 year old daughter with mental health issues. She has been sectioned and sent to a unit 179 miles away from home. Obviously as her mum I want to visit her as much as possible but I am now under a financial constraints due to being on SSP from work and having to apply for Universal Credit (which doesn’t kick in for five weeks!). Where can a parent get financial help for travelling costs from? Because it seems no one knows or wants to help and everyone you ask says it’s not them.
It is heartbreaking as a parent who wants to be with their child that you can’t be there and the child feels that they have been abandoned by their parent in a place they don’t want to be. You end up feeling emotionally and physically sick and tend to forget your own mental well-being.