DCP responds to Govt SEND Plan

At Cause we’ve been working with the Disabled Children’s Partnership (DCP) since 2017. You can read more about our award-winning campaigning here.

We have also made sure that the DCP is the voice of disabled children and their families that journalists turn to when it comes to important policy announcements.

When the Government announced its SEND Improvement plan in March 2023, Cause made sure that the DCP were at the centre of the discussion, representing the families who would be directly impacted by the changes. 

Working with trusted journalists we secured a response from the DCP to the plan on the respected Press Association newswire service, which was then picked up by more than 80 national and regional titles.

We also worked directly with outlets including The Guardian and The Sun to make sure both parents’ and the DCP’s voices were represented, and parents and spokespeople from the organisation were heard on Radio 4’s Today programme, Times Radio, across the day on BBC Radio 5 Live on morning, afternoon and on Channel 5 News, as well as a broad spread of regional titles.