Fw: A Christmas present from EDCM - new supporter action on short breaks!

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EDCM Action: Email your Local Authority to ask about new short breaks duty

Dear LucindaA key EDCM campaign win for families has arrived in time for Christmas: an amendment to the Children and Young Person’s Act 2008 which creates a new duty on local authorities to provide short break servicesThis important duty comes into force in April 2011 so together with the new funding for short breaks, we want to make sure that all local authorities are planning now to meet the new legal requirement from this date.

Please go to our Children and Young Person’s Act 2008 page and take action by emailing your local authority to ask how they are planning their short breaks services now and beyond 2011 with this new duty in mind.

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We want to thank all of you for your continued support in 2008 and the huge numbers of you who take our online actions and lobby for change locally. We couldn’t have achieved our campaign wins without you and look forward to working with you all again in 2009.

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Pamela Shaw Campaign Officer Every Disabled Child Matters National Children's Bureau 8 Wakley Street London EC1V 7QE Direct Line: 020 7843 6318 Fax: 020 7843 6313 www.edcm.org.uk

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