Campaigns
Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) is the campaign to get
rights and justice for every disabled child. EDCM campaigns to
raise the political profile of disabled children and their families
within central and local government.
You can find out about how we campaign at a national level
on these pages and how you can support us in our work. Visit
our Charters
pages to find out how you can help us to
campaign locally to make sure disabled children are a priority in
every local area.
Find out about EDCM’s work to ensure that
‘Aiming High for Disabled Children’, the Government’s
transformation programme for disabled children launched in 2007, is
effectively delivered and sustained.
Find out about the Government’s investment in
short breaks, the new legal duty to provide short breaks to
disabled children, and about EDCM’s work to track the change
experienced by families.
Find out about our campaign to improve health
services for disabled children and download our latest campaign
briefing 'Disabled Children and Health'.
Find out why disabled children are
disproportionately likely to live in poverty and how you can help
put pressure on Government for change.
Find out more about children with special
educational needs and disabled children in education.
Find out how disabled children have helped set
the agenda for EDCM campaigns. See the documents and films that we
have produced in partnership with disabled children about
their priorities and what they want Government to change.
Find out why disabled children may be the
worst housed families in Britain and how you can help us bring this
to the Government’s attention.
