BASW England Response to the Law Commission's consultation on social care law for disabled children

BASW England members welcome the attention that has been brought to this important area of law by the Law Commission’s proposal. A review of the complex, confusing, outdated and neglected legal framework that statutory bodies use to coordinate support to disabled children and their families has been needed since at least the introduction of the Children and Families Act 2015 and the Care Act 2014.
We note that ‘disabled children’ are not a homogenous group and that the outcome of this process needs to meet the needs of all disabled children from across the wide spectra of need, social circumstances and cultural backgrounds.