Aiming High for Disabled Children will deliver £430m to be spent by local authorities on services for disabled children from 2008 to 2011.
The funding came on stream on 1 April, alongside "new growth funding" from the Department of Health to be spent on services for disabled children and children with palliative care needs.
Children's Secretary Ed Balls addressed the reception and said: "We will only spend the funding well, if parents and young people themselves are telling us how. Let us back the Every Disabled Child Matters campaign and use the funding to transform the life chances of disabled children and young people in our country."
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