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Aiming High for Disabled Children: Short Breaks for Disabled Children and their Families

  • Document type:
    Dear colleague letter
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    4 October 2007
  • Primary audience:
    Chief executives, Directors
  • Publication format:
    Electronic only
  • Gateway reference:
    not required
  • Pages:
    4
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

This letter provides details of Local Authority short break funding and invites expressions of interest in becoming short break pathfinder areas. The transformation of short break provision for disabled children and their families is central to Government plans for improving outcomes for disabled children.

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