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Government review prioritises disabled children
26 September 2006
Every Disabled Child Matters is supporting a review of children's services that has the potential to lead to more resources and new guidance and targets for disabled children. The review, run jointly by HM Treasury and the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), will feed into the DfES submission to the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review.
Steve Broach, Campaign Manager for Every Disabled Child Matters, comments:
'Comprehensive Spending Reviews are how government sets its spending priorities - so we are delighted that disabled children are one of three priority themes within this children's review. We are working with Ministers and officials to make sure that they have the evidence about rising numbers of children with complex needs, inequalities in service provision and the need for disabled children to be a priority in commissioning and inspection frameworks.'
In addition to the government review, Ministers Ed Balls MP and Lord Adonis invited MPs to hold their own hearings on disabled children's services, which took place in July. The Every Disabled Child Matters organisations supported these hearings, as did Children Now magazine. Over 300 written submissions were received, offering powerful evidence of the need for improvements to services, minimum service standards and new entitlements to support. The MPs from the hearing panel will reconvene when Parliament returns in October, and the report from the hearings will be launched on 26th October.
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