Disabled children ‘waiting 200 days to be assessed for social care support’

Disabled children ‘waiting 200 days to be assessed for social care support’

Sense said waiting for an assessment leaves families without appropriate support from their local authority. Families with a disabled child are facing average waits of more than 200 days to get assessments for social care, according to research by a charity which said the system is “failing”. Almost a fifth of families (17%) surveyed across the UK for national disability charity Sense said they had waited more than a year to be seen by children’…