In response to many suggestions from posters, MNHQ has made contact with Every Disabled Child Matters, an umbrella group for some of the major special needs organisations.
The first fruit of this collaboration is that Mumsnet is supporting EDCM's Constituency Pledge campaign. The idea is for as many people as possible (not limited to parents of children with disabilities or special needs) to contact candidates who will be standing in the upcoming General Election and ask them to sign up to do the following if they're elected:
- Meet with disabled children, young people and their families to discuss key issues of concern to them.
- Raise these issues of concern, and promote rights and resources for disabled children, young people and families from their constituency in Parliament.
- Visit local services for disabled children and their families on a regular basis.
- Support measures to transform services for disabled children and their families, such as the Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC) programme in England.
- Find out how funding is being used in their constituency to improve services for disabled children, young people and their families.
You can approach your MP and other local candidates and ask him or her to sign the pledge.
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