About Us

Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) is the campaign to get rights and justice for every disabled child.

EDCM is a consortium campaign run by four of the leading organisations working with disabled children and their families: Contact a Family, the Council for Disabled Children, Mencap and the Special Educational Consortium. Between them, the campaign partners represent over 770,000 disabled children and young people in the UK.

EDCM was established in September 2006 and continues to campaign to raise the political profile of disabled children and their families within central and local government.

Since its launch, EDCM has gained over 34,000 individual supporters and the backing of over 200 MPs. Together, we have been putting pressure on the government to put disabled children at the heart of their policy on families.

Campaign Aims

EDCM wants Westminster and local government to:

• Give disabled children and their families new rights to the services and support they need to lead ordinary lives.

• Invest in new resources to make sure these rights can become a reality.

• Give disabled children and their families a new level of priority, and work with them to improve the services they receive.