Disabled children’s friendships, learning, communication, behaviour and mental and physical health have all suffered as more than three quarters (76 per cent) of the 4,074 UK families surveyed report that support has been withdrawn. Half of parents whose children had been receiving crucial therapies or other extra support say this has stopped.
The ‘#LeftInLockdown’ survey found that most parents (72 per cent) are providing a lot more care than they did before lockdown. Just over two thirds (68 per cent) of non-disabled siblings are also providing a lot more care.
Those families already struggling before the pandemic say that they now feel ‘locked out,’ abandoned by society and worried for their own physical and mental health. Worsening mental health for both their children and themselves was reported by 70 - 80 per cent of parents surveyed.
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