Many of the recommendations of last year's cross-party review intoservice and funding requirements for disabled children (Children Now,1-7 November) have been picked up in Aiming High for Disabled Children:Better Support for Families. These include a focus on the transition toadulthood, funding for short breaks for disabled children and thedevelopment of public service agreement targets for services, holdinglocal authorities to account.
This victory shows what can be achieved when representatives of asometimes disparate sector work together. The Every Disabled ChildMatters campaign in particular has worked to ensure the whole disabledchildren's sector was consulted on the proposals. It also shows howcrucial it is for the children's sector to learn to speak the languageof the money men.
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