Contact a Family provides advice, information and support to all UK families with disabled, children regardless of the disability or health condition.

Through a national helpline and family support service, Contact a Family provide advice on any aspect of raising a disabled child, including help with finances, benefits and debt issues. They have a welfare rights team, which helps to generate much needed extra income for families.

About the survey:

Counting the Costs 2010 was carried out between February and April 2010 and completed by 1,113 UK respondents.
All respondents are parents of disabled children:

• 224 have a disabled child aged 0 to 5
• 549 have a disabled child aged 6 to 12
• 340 have a disabled child aged 13 to 19

Counting the Costs 2010 was an online survey made up of open and closed questions. It is a repeat of a survey carried out by Contact a Family in 2008 and the same questions have been used to enable comparison. However

additional questions were added to the 2010 survey. We added questions on the benefits system, working and childcare.

Download the survey report here >