It’s beginning to feel like Spring! Love is everywhere (at least in Lidl where you can get a dozen red Valentine’s roses for a fiver) and it’s half term, where mums and dads up and down the country try to work out how to balance work and full time childcare with some pops of joyful activity which don’t involve computer games and phone screens.
There are 1.5 million disabled kids in the UK, and just shy of two million disabled parents. Now the weather is hinting at being a tiny bit brighter, kids are raring to get out and about to burn off some of winter’s cabin fever.
But half of all disabled kids have had difficulty accessing play equipment in local parks. Almost a tenth of disabled kids are worried they’ll get hurt on equipment which isn’t made with accessibility in mind, and around a tenth have been hurt on such equipment.
