Since July 2004, the Council for Disabled Children, Mencap, Contact aFamily and the Special Educational Consortium have been working to raisepolitical awareness of disabled children and their families. Their workresulted in a pledge in the Labour Party's 2005 general electionmanifesto to "ensure services are designed to meet the additional needsof disabled children and their families".
The new three-year project will continue this progress by working tosecure an agreement across government that significant and additionalresources must be allocated in the 2007 spending review. A secondary aimis to influence the future commissioning of local services.
The coalition plans to combine Westminster, Whitehall and local lobbyingwith a targeted media campaign as well as mobilising the children'sdisability and health sector to develop a shared agenda.
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