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Respite Care for Disabled Children

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KateMumsnet · 09/02/2011 17:42

You might have clocked that we recently joined up with Every Disabled Child Matters to urge local authorities to tell us how much money they will be spending on short breaks for families with disabled children in 2010/11.

Since then, we've been in touch with the main charities that work with disabled children, and we're thrilled that so far Scope, Action For Children, Mencap, Sense and Treehouse (the national charity for autism education) have pledged to support the campaign.

We'll be posting up their messages of support on the Respite Campaign page over the next few days, and we'll let you know as other organisations come on board.

If you haven't yet emailed your local authority, now's your chance! It only takes a minute, we promise.

KateMumsnet · 14/02/2011 20:28

Evening all. Popping in briefly to let you know that Barnardos, KIDS, the Children's Trust, the Council For Disabled Children, the National Autistic Society and the Family Fund are also backing us - so it's looking like a v broad coalition of support.

kemeva, sorry it's confusing. We were thinking it might be best to set aside that thread for MNers to report back on their respite care experiences, and this one to let you all know how the campaign is progressing. But we'll definitely bear it in mind if the situation arises again.

RowanMumsnet · 11/03/2011 15:23

Very sorry to hear that, stressedok. We will forward your message to our campaign partners at EDCM.

There's an update on the respite campaign on this thread.

Thanks,

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