Tag Archives: Learning difficulties

For our disabled daughter, a way out of the labyrinth

March 10, 2011   autism, disability, family

 

Gove promises some relief for the parents of severely disabled children. But others may have reason to worry

 

 

Michael Gove at the Scottish Conservatives’ Conference in Perth last year. His green paper on disability services reform was launched a few months later.

Nothing prepares you for the birth of a child with profound and multiple disabilities. There is the shock, the depression, the grieving for the child you thought you had given birth to alongside the crushing realisation that all the old certainties in your life are no more.

Gradually you adjust, driven forward by love for your offspring. Then comes the awful discovery that the most traumatic part of your new life is not caring for your child but the battle to find a way through the maze of services supposedly set up to help them. Ask any parent of a disabled child – this is what makes daily life such a despairing trial.

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VALUABLE service for families with disabled children has been thrown a lifeline thanks to a government grant.

March 6, 2011   autism, family, learning difficulties

Parents of disabled are thrown a lifeline
Calderdale parents and carers council gets cash.

Published on Sun Mar 06 12:00:26 GMT 2011

A VALUABLE service for families with disabled children has been thrown a lifeline thanks to a government grant.

Calderdale Parents’ and Carers’ Council, based at Hanson Lane Enterprise Centre, Halifax, has been awarded £21,640 from the Department of Health’s Financial Assistance Fund, which supports charities who would not otherwise have survived to the end of the financial year.

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Job Description -REQUIRED: MOTHER – FOR DISABLED CHILD

March 4, 2011   autism, disability, health, learning difficulties, mental health

Job Description -REQUIRED: MOTHER  – FOR DISABLED CHILD

This is a permanent post – HOURS: 168 Hours a week, 52 weeks per year. Time off: by negotiation with Statutory/Voluntary or Private agencies (NOT GUARANTEED) – No Experience necessary – No training will be provided – SALARY= £0 – Although Carers Allowance is available = £53.90 per week (subject to filling in long and complicated forms)

JOB PURPOSE: To provide a full parenting service to a disabled child or children. This includes promoting their human rights, ensuring that all of their needs are fully met and that they take an active part in family life and the wider community
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