Care for Disabled Children 'Poor'

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The quality of social services care available to Britain's 49,000 severely disabled children is 'often extremely poor', a damning report today reveals. Almost three times more is spent looking after juvenile prisoners than providing services for severely disabled children, the Centre for Policy Studies has claimed.

And the right-of-centre think tank believes the situation is set to get worse as medical advances mean more disabled children are born and live longer.

The report, People, Not Budgets: Valuing Disabled Children, found 48% of families with disabled children receive no support at all from outside the family and a further 30% receive less than two hours help …