By Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun, December 4, 2020
An astonishing number of families raising special needs children have been unable to access government respite funding and emergency supports put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a special report by B.C.’s representative for children and youth.
The pandemic has cast a harsh light on a “crisis decades in the making” for families that rely on support for children with lifelong disabilities, neurological conditions and chronic health problems, wrote Dr. Jennifer Charlesworth in “Left Out: Children and youth with special needs in the pandemic.”
The chaos sown by lockdowns, distancing requirements and disruption to schools due to COVID-19 “amplified the inadequacies” of the system.
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