Campaigns

End Child Poverty Campaign

The Campaign to End Child Poverty’s main aim is to hold the Government to their promise to halve child poverty by 2010

TreeHouse is a member of the Campaign to End Child Poverty, because the UK has one of the highest incidences of child poverty in the developing world and child poverty disproportionately affects children with disabilities and their families.

Many parents and carers of children with autism are unable to work and consequently have to make financial compromises that affect their whole family.

If Government are serious about halving child poverty then they will have to consider the particular needs of families of children with disabilities and what they can do to make sure that they are not disadvantaged.

For more information please visit the End Child Poverty website or see the campaign event page.

Every Disabled Child Matters

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For more information please visit the EDCM website

Children are Unbeatable

The Children Are Unbeatable! Alliance campaigns for the UK to satisfy human rights obligations by modernising the law on assault to afford children the same protection as adults. The Alliance was established in 1998 and is now the broadest campaign coalition ever assembled on a children’s issue, bringing together more than 400 organisations and many more individuals.

For more information please visit the Children are Unbeatable website

UN Convention Campaign Coalition

The UN Convention Campaign Coalition aims to ensure that the UK government ratifies the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities without reservation. Human Rights are universal and indivisible. Ratification of this convention, whilst demanding duties and obligations on member states, does recognise the need for progressive implementation.

For more information please visit the UN Convention Campaign Coalition website

Blue Badge Campaign

Lord Tim Clement-Jones, Chair of the TreeHouse trustees, tabled a question in the House of Lords asking about why people with autism are not granted a blue parking badge as standard.
View the question on Parliament Live TV (please forward 30 minutes to get to the right section)

Autism blue badge delay attacked from the BBC website 24 April 2007. A report on the question Lord Tim Clement Jones, TreeHouse Chair of Trustees, asked in the House of Lords with regards to the blue badge scheme.