Gracie E

Feeling really overwhelmed at the moment with half term and hospital appointments and kids birthdays and filling in forms and applications and then to hear that the government is considering removing ehcps for children in mainstream is the icing on the cake. Taking from disabled people, children or adults is simply wrong.

Without his Ehcp my son would become a school refuser, he wouldn't have access to his 1 2 1 and his key worker. The school would simply suspend him as opposed to help him and honestly right now I feel this government do not have any of our best interests at heart. I suppose if I had money I'd be able to privately educate or home educate him but that's not a luxury I have at the moment.

This government is pushing our children deep past the poverty line and removing any accommodations and support that would otherwise make this bearable.

This has a knock on effect on my mental health and that of my children. When the future looks bleak and you already fight every day to simply survive it's easy to sink into negative thoughts and worries to spiral.