Commissioned by Action for Children and the Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) campaign, The Social and Economic Value of Short Breaks assesses long-term savings that can be achieved if the delivery of respite care is continued.
Services for disabled children are currently funded through the government's Aiming High For Disabled Children (AHDC) programme until 2011.
Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems have committed themselves to continuing AHDC, although they have not confirmed whether funding will be protected amid predicted public sector cuts.
The study, produced by the New Economics Foundation, calculates £135m could be saved from spending on long-term residential care, by reducing the number of disabled children placed outside of the family home because parents are unable to cope with the challenges of caring for them.
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