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Just4Children
Children’s Charity

Just4Children is passionate about the relief of sickness
and preservation of health of children in the UK

Just4Children – Our Mission

Just4Children is passionate about the relief of sickness and preservation of health of children in the UK and Ireland by providing and assisting in the provision of grants to enable them to obtain medical treatment, therapies, living environments, equipment and holidays which would not otherwise be available to them.

Steps for Esme

Just4Children are continuing their support to help Esme live an independent life as possible by fundraising for further therapy and specialist equipment. Esme is a wonderful happy and bright 7-year-old girl from Swindon. At the age of 12 months Esme was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy which affects her legs mainly making it difficult for her […]

Rooting for Ronnie

Just4Children are raising funds for Ronnie to have on going therapies he needs to help him live as independently as possible. Ronnie is 1 years old from Northampton. He suffered from HIE (Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy, lack of oxygen) at birth and spent the beginning of his life between several hospital wards. As a result of […]

Keeping up with Eloise

Just4Children are fundraising to help cover the cost of therapies and specialist equipment, which will enable Eloise to live her best life. Eloise is aged 6 from Barnet. It takes a lot to keep up with her. Ever since her early arrival at 27 weeks, she has kept us all on our toes. Now six […]

Facts & Figures

  • 800,000 children or 1 in 20 under the age of 16 in the UK are disabled. Disabled children aged 0 –16 are the fastest growing group among the population of disabled people.
  • There are around 25,000 blind or partially sighted children between the ages of 0–16. Around half have additional disabilities and/or special educational needs.
  • There are more than 45,000 deaf children in the UK, plus many more who experience temporary hearing loss. Around half of all deaf children are born deaf, and the remaining half acquires deafness during childhood.
  • The annual cost of bringing up a disabled child is 3 times greater than that of bringing up a non-disabled child.
  • 40% of disabled children in the UK live in poverty. This accounts for around 320,000 disabled children, and almost a third of those are classified as living in ‘severe poverty’.
  • Households affected by disability are more likely to not be working, or working fewer hours. The level of worklessness is much higher for households with disabled children, with 38% of disabled children living in workless households, compared to 16% of all children.
  • 84% of mothers of disabled children do not work, compared with 39% of mothers of non-disabled children. Only 3% of mothers of disabled children work full time and 13% work part time.
  • 99.1% of disabled children live at home and are supported by their families, and only 1 in 13 disabled children receive a regular support service of any sort from their Local Authority.
  • According to a Contact a Family survey in 2012, 1 in 6 families (17%) with disabled children go without food, 1 in 5 (21%) go without heating, 1 in 4 (26%) go without specialist equipment or adaptations, and 86% go without leisure activities.
  • In 2014, a Scope report revealed that 69% of parents with disabled children have difficulty accessing local services for their children, and 90% were worried about cuts to the local services that they need.
  • It is estimated that around 748,000 children and young people aged 5 to 16 in Great Britain have a cognitive impairment or mental ill health. Around 78,000 of these have autistic spectrum disorders, around 132,000 have a learning disability, and 51,000 have mental ill health.
  • Children with a learning disability are often socially excluded and 8 out of 10 children with a learning disability.

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