Out of reach: benefits for disabled children
Despite a range of government initiatives aiming to reduce child poverty and improving support for disabled children, families affected by disability continue to experience high levels of poverty and social exclusion.
Contact a Family and Child Poverty Action Group have published research looking at the problems faced by families with disabled children accessing welfare entitlements.
Caring for sick or disabled children: Parents' experiences of combining work and care
This study tracked parent carers of sick or disabled
children over a four-year period, and gives a voice to
their experiences, attitudes and aspirations in relation
to combining paid employment and unpaid caring.
Many needed (and wanted) to work to support their families and to have an additional focus away from their caring role. The challenges of combining work and care are particularly significant for parents of sick or disabled children, whose children require more and different parental support, often over a longer period.
Commissioned by Carers UK and Contact a Family, as part of the ACE National (Action for Carers and Employment) partnership.
Poverty and reform of tax credits
Families with disabled children are likely to be poor. These families have higher expenses and lower incomes. Around half of disabled children grow up in, or on the margins of poverty.
Open wide: Families' experiences of accessing dental care for their disabled child
In May, June and July 2005, UK parents with a child with a disability were surveyed on their experiences of NHS dentistry.
Debt and disability: The impact of debt on families with disabled children
In 2004, Contact a Family conducted a survey into debt in conjunction with the Family Fund.
Everybody here? Play and leisure for disabled children and young people
Survey of families experiences of accessing play and leisure services in the UK.
Website surveys
Contact a Family conducts regular surveys through online questionnaires on our website.
Counting the costs
Contact a Family conducted research into how rising living costs have impacted on families with disabled children.
Flexible enough?
Contact a Family conducted research into parents knowledge and use of flexible employment rights.
Childcare costs
Childcare can be a problem for families with disabled children due to the dual difficulty of cost and access to suitable childcare.
National service framework
Contact a Family asked disabled young people and people who care for a disabled child for their views on the National service framework (NSF).
Relationships - No time for us
Contact a Family asked parents of disabled children what effect they thought having a disabled child had had on their relationship.
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