Emergency Preparedness as a parent to a child with additional needs

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I’ve been following recent threads and discussions about the Government ‘Be Ready’ campaign, but I’ve seen very little for those families who have additional considerations. Let’s start a thread with ideas how families, all with different needs, can do that.

I’m not sure there is much we can do beyond what we ordinarily do because of DC’s additional needs.

We are on the priority registers for water and gas & electric.
We have a go bag. It is for hospital admissions but could but used for other purposes.
We make sure we have a good stock of non-perishables because of DSs’ allergies, hospital admissions and safe food sensory wise.
We have some bottled water and medical sterile water.
I try to ensure medical equipment with batteries are charged. We have powerbanks, but they won’t be much help in a prolonged power cut. Although some equipment doesn’t have batteries, which would be a problem during a prolonged power cut.
Because of medical needs, we have an array of medical items at home so don’t need to add to a first aid kit.
Paperwork is all in one place already.
We have torches, radio, sleeping bags, blankets, etc. anyway.

I order medication as soon as I can but if there was a period where we were unable to get medications that would be an issue, we can’t order early enough to big up a big buffer, not that we have space to store them even if we did. Similar with feeds and ancillary products and incontinence products. We can't have them delivered early and we don’t have the space to store more than we already receive even if we did.

We have a small amount of cash. Notes and coins. I suppose we could add to that. Not sure it is necessary.

You are so organised, I’m getting there but there are jobs like paperwork i hadn’t considered.