Investment in the Needs of Disabled Children and Their Families

The motion

That the Parliament praises the work of the organisation, for Scotland’s Disabled Children (fSDC), in improving the lives of families with disabled children by ensuring that disabled children in every part of Scotland have access to more and better short breaks, increasing and improving the support that disabled children and young people receive when they move through different phases of their lives, promoting access to affordable and suitable childcare for families with disabled children and improving educational opportunities and outcomes for disabled children and young people; congratulates the UK Government in 2007 for its commitment to the welfare of families with disabled children by providing £340 million to support the Aiming High For Disabled Children strategy in England; welcomes the £34 million that Scotland received in consequentials through the Barnett formula as a result of this investment in the needs of disabled children and their families; notes that, although local authorities have received their annual shares of this money through a single line of funding, it has not being ring-fenced to ensure that it is used to fund respite care for disabled children; notes all of the hard work to support disabled children and their families currently undertaken by local authorities and their social services but laments that some, such as Fife Council, currently have such tight budgetary pressures that they have been unable to earmark this money to be used to further fund disabled children’s respite care; is particularly concerned that the leader of Fife Council is not aware that this funding exists, is not aware of the needs of families with disabled children have that led to the financial commitment and is not aware of how this money could be used by the council to address these needs, and hopes that Fife Council will use the most recent annual instalment of the funding to increase respite care for disabled children in Fife to improve the lives not only of these children but also of their families.


No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Lab 2

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3M-06792 by reference.