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c/o Council for Disabled Children
National Children's Bureau
8 Wakley Street
London EC1V 7QE
tel +44 (0)20 7843 6448
fax +44 (0)20 7843 6313
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Related campaigns
Breaking point
We want people with a learning disability and their families and carers to get good short breaks from their local authority or health and social services trust.
www.mencap.org.uk/breakingpoint
Changing Places
The Changing Places Consortium have launched a national campaign for Changing Places toilets. We want Changing Places toilets to be installed in all public places.
www.changing-places.org
Don't stick it, stop it!
Don’t stick it, stop it! is Mencap’s campaign to stop the bullying of children and young people with a learning disability.
www.dontstickit.org.uk
End Child Poverty
The campaign to End Child Poverty represents many thousands of supporters across a wide range of sectors, campaigning to end child poverty.
www.endchildpoverty.org.uk
Gojo
Gojo is the first nationwide campaign aimed at increasing young people's confidence in using public transport. The campaign is being run by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC).
www.mygojo.co.uk
Include Me TOO
Include Me TOO provides a platform for all disabled children, young people and their families to voice their views and discuss issues which affect them.
http://includemetoo.com/index.html
In the Picture
This innovative project, run by Scope, aims to promote the inclusion of disabled children in early years' picture books.
www.childreninthepicture.org.uk/
Learning Disability Coalition
The coalition is calling for improved funding and better services to improve the lives of people with a learning disability so that they have the same opportunities and choices as other people across the UK.
www.learningdisabilitycoalition.org.uk
Make Chatter Matter
Make Chatter Matter is I CAN’s UK-wide awareness-raising campaign to highlight the importance of children’s communication development during the early years as the foundation for learning and development.
www.ican.org.uk/makechattermatter
Make school make sense
The National Autistic Society's make school make sense education campaign aims to improve educational provision for children with autism, so that every child can get the education they deserve.
www.nas.org.uk/msms
Real Change, not Short Change
This campaign presses for a full review of incomes and services for carers and their families to secure them a better deal.
www.carersuk.org/Newsandcampaigns/Shortchanged
Right to Read
A campaign by RNIB and the Right to Read Alliance to give everyone in the UK the chance to be able to read the same book at the same time at the same price.
www.rnib.org.uk/righttoread
Standing by disabled children
The Children's Society are campaigning for a legal right for every disabled child placed away from home to have access to an independent advocate.
www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what+we+do/campaigning/
The Right Start
Whizz-Kidz is campaigning to improve wheelchair services for children so that all disabled children and young people can access the mobility equipment they need, when they need it.
www.whizz-kidz.org.uk/Page.asp?originx7922sh_31905104459a74t6933559824
Petitions
A number of petitions relating to disabled children are now posted on the Prime Minister's petitions website at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk. You can find them and add your name using the search facility on the site.
Petitions EDCM are aware of include:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/disabledaccess/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/disabledtravel/
