Disability: Care improvement needs local strategy

20 July 2004

A body to improve national standards of care and support for very young children with disabilities will have to operate at a local level in order to reach those most in need.

This is the feeling emerging from consultation that forms part of a joint feasibility study by Mencap and the Government.

Lesley Campbell, Mencap's national children's officer, said a key aim would be to look at ways of targeting families who do not access help where it is available, such as those from ethnic minority groups.

To achieve this, the centre's work would have to be carried out at a regional or local level, she said.

"A national centre can't reach out to some of those locally isolated groups that are likely to have the most problems," she added.

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