Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:07 pm
The Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) campaign, which Mencap is part of, is launching a new Private Members Bill (the Disabled Children (Family Support) Bill 2007) to give disabled children and their families a legal right to short break care.
We need you to email your MP and ask them to support this Bill. The Bill can only become law if it is supported by MPs.
We want disabled children and their families to have a legal right to short break care because we know that without support families can reach crisis point. Mencap’s Breaking Point survey found that 8 out of 10 carers of disabled children came close to or reached breaking point because of a lack of support.
http://www.edcm.org.uk/Page.asp?originx ... 071019328l
We need you to email your MP and ask them to support this Bill. The Bill can only become law if it is supported by MPs.
We want disabled children and their families to have a legal right to short break care because we know that without support families can reach crisis point. Mencap’s Breaking Point survey found that 8 out of 10 carers of disabled children came close to or reached breaking point because of a lack of support.
http://www.edcm.org.uk/Page.asp?originx ... 071019328l