The older I have grown, the more I have realised how important a support network for families/people living with special needs can be. This comes in all different forms; whether it is a simple text asking how you are, or one day a week where a different individual will take your child/sibling out for a couple hours to give you time to yourself. In this sense, my family and I are extremely lucky. However, many people do not have this luxury. This is where institutions such as the local councils need to do more! I see stories too frequently about how many parents are losing their jobs simply due to the fact that the council has taken away their child’s transport for school. This means they now have to do this without help from their council, meaning making sacrifices such as leaving work early etc, and resulting in some losing their jobs. How in any world is this remotely fair? Some people, (myself included), could go as far to say that this is out right discrimination. You don’t see neurotypical children’s parents losing their jobs due to this do you?!

This is one of the main reasons I wanted to create this platform: to voice this massive current issue with society. As well as this, the council have recently cut funding to special needs schools and clubs. This means that my brother’s Special Education school was only open for half a day, as well as many holiday clubs having to close due to lack of funding. Again, this never seems to happen to mainstream schools does it?! How is this fair? Individuals who need the most amount of support are suffering and losing it due to lack of funding. Why cut funding from people who need it the most, when you could funding where it isn’t needed? Hopefully, by writing this I can spread the fact that this is such a key issue at the moment, and hopefully at some point in the future witness a change in this, and limit the amount of sacrifice parents have to make.