CYP Now - One in four health and wellbeing boards sign disabled children's charter

Disability campaigners have urged health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) to sign up to a charter to improve services for disabled children after it emerged that just a quarter have done so more than a year after it was launched.

The Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) campaign said 37 HWBs have put their names to the Disabled Children’s Charter, which gives boards seven targets to meet that are key to ensuring the health and care needs of disabled children and young people are a local priority.

EDCM has now written again to those HWBs that haven’t signed up, calling on them to show their “commitment to improving the quality of life and outcomes experienced by disabled children and young people” by backing the charter.

The letter says that meeting the charter’s commitments "will reassure parent carers that their board will use its influence to ensure the health system delivers for disabled children, young people and their families in their area”.

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