Found: estimated 240 million children worldwide live with disabilities, with one in six experiencing significant disability

Found: covered by the Equality Act (2010) – for example, under protected characteristics of age, sex or disability

Found: livelihoods are interrupted or we go through change Help with the extra costs some households face (eg disability

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support families caring for disabled children.

Answered by Claire Coutinho - Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

It is the responsibility of local authorities, schools, and further education settings to commission appropriately qualified staff to support the education of children and young people in their area.

The department’s reforms, as set out in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan and the Children’s Social Care Implementation strategy, detail the department’s commitments for providing stronger support for disabled children, including:

• a Law Commission review of children’s social care legislation for disabled children
• non-stigmatising and easier to access family help
• a stronger focus on disabled children in Working Together
• new metrics that track the experiences of disabled children through the system
• strengthened language to encourage areas to adopt Designated Social Care Officers
• a £30 million investment in innovative approaches to short breaks for disabled children.

Found: Disability Children and young people who have a disability13 are to be supported to fully participate

Found: a disability In 2024, we plan to broaden this out to also include: • people with a learning disability

Found: a disability In 2024, we plan to broaden this out to also include: • people with a learning disability

Found: develop their knowledge and understanding of diversity including religion or belief, ethnicity and disability

Found: needs should be substantially in excess of those of a child of the same age who does not have a disability

Found: they can’t make a cooked main meal if provided with the ingredients because of a mental or physical disability

Found: they can’t make a cooked main meal if provided with the ingredients because of a mental or physical disability

Found: needs should be substantially in excess of those of a child of the same age who does not have a disability

Found: broadly fell into four categories: children who were at risk of experiencing trauma, children with a disability

Found: under 12 months, families with a mother under 25 and families with a parent or child living with a disability

Found: needs should be substantially in excess of those of a child of the same age who does not have a disability