Radar’s updated publication Children first guides parents, carers, and professionals through key areas of interest for children with lived experience of disability or health conditions, including play and leisure, education, transport, and housing. This guide offers up to date information and useful contacts, which will extend your knowledge and awareness of some of the obstacles faced by disabled children and their families, whilst providing useful advice which can help these to be overcome.
Children first signposts to information on some of the most useful services available to disabled children as well as to their parents or carer/s, ranging from benefit entitlement, advice on finding the most appropriate form of childcare, and companies who supply toys designed specifically for children with a disability.
Whether you are a parent, carer or family member of a child who has lived experience of disability or health conditions, Children first will empower you, so that you can make the most of the services and opportunities available to you and your child.
“I have found this book the most valuable resource that any nurse practitioner could have to hand, indeed, my midwife and my health visitor also have purchased copies for themselves and the health visitor as a team leader has one for her team. Its potential to assist not only health professionals but parents alike is invaluable, and it should be used as a learning tool in social work, nursing, health visiting, and midwife teaching at university”. AP, Derby, Nurse Practitioner.
