Boost for Families Requiring Support for Children with Complex Needs

Boost for families requiring support for children with complex needs

Young children with complex development needs will be able to access support more quickly, following a Government announcement in Napier. The Early...

Families need support before crisis

Our CEO, Anna Bird, has written in the Guardian about the urgent need for families raising disabled children to receive support early – before exhaustion becomes a crisis. In her letter, Anna highlights what parent carers tell us every day. Families need timely access to support in the home, short breaks and services that recognise and respond to the needs of parent carers as well as those of their disabled children. Some families are blamed sim…