Following on from my last post with a link to my article in Community Care Magazine, here's one I prepared earlier!
This piece ran 13 years ago when Chrissy was 16, & it's about inconsistency of service levels offered by local authorities.
We had just moved to Buckinghamshire, & the support hours that Chrissy had received in Hertfordshire, where we'd lived previously, were cut in half. Chrissy's needs hadn't changed but the council claimed they 'didn't have a big enough purse.'
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/21/12/2000/29262/losing-out-in-the-postcode-lottery.htm
I support Unique http://www.rarechromo.co.uk/html/home.asp & I'm a SWAN (syndromes without a name) blogger
Thank you for visiting my blog. These are stories of the unique issues faced by people with learning disabilities and their families, inspired by my experiences of parenting Chrissy, who was diagnosed with the rare chromosome disorder, 1q21.1 microdeletion, in her twenties. If you're wondering if counselling could help you with the challenges that you face in parenting someone with additional needs, contact me: info@janealcockcounselling.co.uk
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