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Thank you all

I've signed it!!!

So, they've resorted to cutting aid to the most vulnerable through the back door now.

Signed it Ann :-)

Thanks Sue.

nudge for evening peeps :-D

Thank you James

Signed and I have also asked all my family and friends on Facebook to sign as well

Thank you

Done and shared on FB.

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Signed it Ann.

What worries me with all the cuts there will be a whole generation of children whose education and prospects will be sorely affected

It happened before when there were cuts.

Don't get me started
Take care
Von

Done :-)

Deaf children’s futures are in danger, warns a report published by NDCS today detailing a second wave of cuts to specialist support and a culture of secrecy at local councils.


Our investigations into decision-making at local level have revealed many alarming practices, including:
No council planning cuts this year could provide an assessment of the impact this will have on deaf children, as required under the Equality Act
Two-thirds of councils failed to provide information about when budget decisions were being made and how families could participate in them
49 councils broke the law by not providing information about their budgets for deaf children’s support

The result is that parents of deaf children are left powerless to challenge critical decisions about the support their children rely on. NDCS is calling on ministers in the Departments for Education, Communities and Local Government and Health to use ministerial powers to hold councils to account over cuts that are putting deaf children’s futures at risk.

NDCS discovered that one quarter of England’s councils plan to cut vital support for deaf children this year, including:

One fifth of councils will cut educational support for deaf children, even though deaf children are already underachieving.
Half of councils say they are planning to ‘review’ the way they help deaf children at school.
18 areas have made cuts to speech and langauge therapy that include support for deaf children
20 areas have made cuts to social care that include support for deaf children
Two thirds of councils failed to provide a clear picture of the social care support they provide to deaf children, even though deaf children are at higher risk of suffering from abuse and mental health problems.

NDCS has launched a petition calling on the Government to act and for greater transparency from councils on the support they provide to deaf children. The charity needs to secure 100,000 signatures to force the Government to address the issue and debate it in Parliament.


Please if you want to sign the petition

www.ndcs.org.uk/stolen