 | Disabled Parents Network (DPN) is a national organisation of and for disabled people who are parents or who hope to become parents, and their families, friends and supporters. |  Contact Us 0300 3300 639 |
| Disabled Parents Network (DPN) is a national organisation of and for disabled people who are parents or who hope to become parents, and their families, friends and supporters. | Contact Us 0300 3300 639 |
DPN provides information, advice and peer support to disabled parents, their families and supporters. We campaign on a local and national level to improve services for disabled parents. We also provide training and workshop facilitation to social and health professionals.
If you feel we can help please Contact Us.
DPN introduces new phone number to save callers money
DPN now has a new phone number for enquirers to contact us on, costing less than the previous number. Calls to our new number - 0300 3300 639 - should be charged at the same rate as standard landline calls (ie, numbers beginning 01 and 02), and as such should also be included in any 'inclusive calls' package or bundled minutes.
Our old number - 0870 241 0450 - continues to operate alongside the new one, and we will be updating all our publicity and publications over the next year to reflect the changes.
We have also introduced a menu enabling selected calls to be routed directly to the most appropriate person, but if no key is pressed calls will still be placed directly into the main helpline queue as before.
We hope that the change will encourage disabled parents who are concerned about call costs to contact us still, and improve the speed and efficiency with which we handle calls.
Laurence Clarke on Young Carers
‘...the bizarre truth of the matter is that our society chooses to place more importance on helping my child to look after me than on helping me to look after my child. Of course, no child should be put in a position where their parents rely upon them for basic day-to-day support. But if disabled parents were given adequate assistance, then there would be far fewer young carers. Instead, disabled parents would finally be able to fulfil their roles as parents, thus freeing their children to get on with simply being children.’
Read his full 'rant' on the BBC Ouch site - www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/columnists/laurence/190508_index.shtml
"I would like to pick up on a re occurring issue around children not being allowed to travel/accompany you on Dial a Ride / Ring a Ride or whatever your local service happens to be called and ask some questions if I may.
I have personal experience of this and am so ticked off with this have decided to push matters. However before I do I can see some issues quickly being presented. I will play devils advocate here simply becuase I know these will come up.
For those who would/want to be able to use this service do you have car seats for your children if they are of an age to need them?
As a non car owner I did not. My sercice allowed for 2 escorts to travel with me but I had 3 children. As it turned out 2 of them were eligible to use the service and that is how we got around it though there were other issues."
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last updated: 02 Dec 08
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