- Target:
- Jane Harvey, complex needs manager
- Region:
- United Kingdom
Stocktons respite services was closed a year ago and moved to a neighbouring borough, providing transport for disabled children to and from school and respite for the duration of their stay.
Now we have received letters saying that as of the end of July this service is stopping. So parents have to take their children from school to respite, and next morning pick them up to take them to school.
This is not respite for the parents, and we were told that transport was not an issue, but now it is, and I being one of the parents to suffer this decision is not happy as are many others, it will end up us as parents not being able to do this and having to opt out of the service, which will in turn probably end up closing because we were told lies in the beginning. Plus our respite out the window.
Parents with disabled kids no matter how minor or major the disability is have a hard enough time as it is without our services bing messed around like this.
We the undersigned protest against the decision for transport to be ceased. We need help to transport disabled children to and from respite to school and back.
We ask that the SEN, the local authority and the NHS Tees health scrutiny committee, reverse the decision and save respite transport for disabled children.
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The Save Respite Transport for Children petition to Jane Harvey, complex needs manager was written by julie agar and is in the category Children's Rights at GoPetition.