We are delighted to announce that yesterday the government responded to the Every Disabled Child Matters campaign for a right to short breaks, by creating a new legal duty on local authorities to provide short breaks to support families with disabled children.
The duty has been described as a ‘historic moment’ in improving services for disabled children and their families - EDCM would like to say a huge ‘thank you’ to all their supporters that have backed their calls for a clearer right to short breaks. Read their news story for more detail:
http://www.edcm.org.uk/shortbreaksduty
While this is a huge step forward, the new duty is not likely to go as far as creating a new legal right to short breaks for individual families. EDCM will continue to campaign - with your support - for further changes to the law.
Last updated: Thursday 20th March, 2008