New Parents Funding Available
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION- Funding
ATT sincerely hope that in years to come all children diagnosed with ASD will have access to appropriate medical tests and treatments within the NHS. We have campaigned for several years on this subject but with limited success. We will continue to do so but until then we must charge for tests and treatments.
Until these treatments and biomedical testing are paid for by relevant governmental agencies, we would suggest to parents to seek additional financial support from other charities. The listed charities below have been very supportive to other families like yours: Funding for Biomedical Treatments in autism: Testing and supplementation
Caudwell Charitable Trust http://www.caudwellchildren.com/ has been very supportive to our treatments and testing protocols and several parents have been successful in obtaining renewable grant covering fully the intervention proposed at ATT.
See enclosed application Pack.
Direct Payments: ‘A parent’s guide to direct payments’ is produced by the Council for Disabled Children and the Department of Health. Direct Payments are a way of arranging services for disabled children and their families. A person with parental responsibility for a disabled child is given money to pay for services instead of the local authority arranging them on their behalf. The guide has been written for people with parental responsibility for disabled children who are considering using direct payments to buy part or all of the services required by their child (including short breaks). Copies are available free of charge from Department for education and skills, quote ref. 31213/A Tel: 0845 602 22260 or to down load from www.teachernet.gov.uk.
Direct Payments can be used for Short break and Respite care, Day care placements, assistance to attend an activity, personal Care. We believe personal care could cover advice on education intervention and dietary modification.
Direct Payments should be arranged via your social worker.
If you are successful at identifying other source of charitable funding, please do let us know.
Other sources of Funding:
States Benefits:
Inland Revenue benefits: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk
Please contact your social worker for help in accessing these State benefits.
Disability Living Allowance Carer allowance for parents caring at home for their disabled child for at least 35 hr/week. Carer allowance gives access to many further reductions (e.g. cinema, swimming pool, art exhibition) Child Tax credit and Working tax credit (will take into account the disability of the child and could cover some of the child care expenses).
Other Charities:
Family Fund www.familyfund.org.uk (Tel 0845 13045).
Family fund can help with yearly grant of up to £500 to cover expenses such as holidays and equipments for your disabled child (incl. furniture, computer software equipment).
John Watson Trust: http://www.johnwatsons.com (0131 220 1640). John Watson Trust will support various Educational Project with grant averaging £500. Can be renewed.
There are many additional charities and funds that will focus on specific needs, e.g. holidays, equipment etc. Contact a Family is a very supporting UK wide organisation that assembles lots of information for parents of disabled children. www.cafamily.org.uk (Tel 020 7608 8700, it has also a branch in Edinburgh). The organisation FAIR (Family Advice and Information Resource) has also been particular supportive and helpful for families of disabled children (can assist you with any sort of difficulties, including financial and battle over payments). Tel: 0131 662 1962.
Please also know that your social worker has access to further source of funding often not revealed to family unless specifically requested.
Trefoil House: http://www.trefoil.org.uk/ Apparently a charity providing holiday accommodation for disabled people- Currently providing small grant to families of £250.
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