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Join our campaign
Become part of our campaign network of young people and parents and help us ensure that every disabled child can access the wheelchair they need without delay.
We are calling on the Government to meet its commitments to reform wheelchair services for children and allocate additional funding, in order to make this a reality!
If you’d like to join our campaign network and support our work, please email us. There are ways that you can get involved straight away…
Contact your local MP today
Whizz-Kidz needs your help to inform your MP about how local wheelchair services are failing to meet the needs of disabled children and their families.
We want all MPs to ask the Government to honour its recent commitments to reform the wheelchair service to meet the needs of disabled children and to increase funding for child-friendly mobility equipment. This is essential if the Government is to meet its targets to improve services for disabled children and their families. Please act now to help us to make a difference!
Whizz-Kidz is asking MPs to support two Early Day Motions:
EDM 176 to improve Wheelchair Services for Disabled Children.
EDM 1427 on Health funding for Disabled Children
Write to your local MP today to ask for their support. They have a duty to respond to your concerns as a member of their constituency.
Step 1: Read our golden rules to contacting your MP.
Step 2: Use our sample letter as a guide.
Step 3: Find out who is your local MP. All MPs can be contacted at the House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA, or at their constituency address. Alternatively you can send a message by email once you have identified your MP at the above link.
Step 4: Keep in touch with us! Please let us know if you are writing to your MP and send us a copy of any correspondence you receive to: Stephanie Bell, Whizz-Kidz, Elliot House, 10-12 Allington Street, London SW1E 5EH.
Contact your Primary Care Trust
We are calling on our supporters to contact their local Primary Care Trust to highlight their experiences, and to find out what they are doing to improve the wheelchair services for children and young people.
Step 1: Check your PCT at the following link. Enter your town or postcode and select the 'NHS Trusts' option. Click on the PCT that appears to find out the contact details.
Step 2: Use our sample letter as a guide to write to your PCT Chief Executive.
Step 3: Contact us if you get a response and send copies to Stephanie Bell at the Whizz-Kidz address above.
Whizz-Kidz is also urging PCTs to sign up to the EDCM PCT Charter to improve local health services for disabled children. Supporters can help by contacting their PCT and asking them to sign up. Visit the EDCM website here
Tell us your experiences
Personal stories are an invaluable way for us to strengthen our campaign because they compel others to sit up and listen.
Please answer the following questions and email us your responses.
With your consent we will incorporate your personal story or experiences into specific campaigns, as part of a policy briefing or in our media work.
Take part in research
Whizz-Kidz undertakes research to support our campaigning and media work. We are keen to encourage young disabled people and their families to participate in research and would welcome your contribution.
If you would like to take part in any research, please email us
Take part in consultations
Whizz-Kidz responds to relevant Government and other types of consultation where possible, to make sure the voice of disabled children and young people are heard by Parliamentarians and policy makers. We garner the views and experiences of our young beneficiaries and their families, as well the opinions of our therapists and partners working in the field.
If you’d like to be added to our consultation list please email us
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With my Whizz-Kidz chair I could push myself and therefore choose where I wanted to go rather than where I was pushed. This taste of freedom and independence led to me getting involved in wheelchair sports