Media Release - For immediate release
Monday 19 March
Contact: Kate Williams, 020 7843 6448, [email protected]
Every Disabled Child Matters welcomes new research published today confirming a two-way relationship between disability and child poverty.
The research, undertaken by the Institute for Public Policy Research and commissioned by the Disability Rights Commission, confirms that families with disabled children are more likely to live in poverty than other families.
The report recommends that all disabled children should be eligible for Disability Living Allowance to cover the additional costs of bringing up a disabled child.
Steve Broach, Campaign Manager for Every Disabled Child Matters, comments:
'This report is welcome because it confirms what families tell us - that the cost of bringing up a disabled child is driving many of these families into poverty. The child poverty strategy due out shortly must fully recognise the particular needs of families with disabled children, if the government is to have any hope of meeting its own child poverty target'.
The report is available from http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=2615
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For media enquiries please contact Kate Williams on: 020 7843 6448 or at [email protected]
Every Disabled Child Matters is a campaign by four organisations working with disabled children and their families: Contact a Family, Council for Disabled Children, Mencap and the Special Educational Consortium. It is a three-year campaign funded by a grant from the True Colours Trust, a Sainsbury’s family trust. See http://www.edcm.org.uk