My Rights, Your Responsibility

Your child's right to be included

My Rights, Your Responsibility is a set of information written primarily for parents of disabled children. It provides information to parents on their child's rights to access activities, community facilities and other services.

So often disabled children and young people are told they cannot join in for reasons relating to health and safety and their impairment. This information tries to address those issues and details what needs to be done to ensure that children and young people can safely join in and that the organisation providing the activity meets its responsibilities in terms of health and safety.

Health and safety should not be used as an excuse to prevent services becoming more inclusive but should be used to ensure that risks are minimised and that we move towards a situation where all children and young people are given the opportunities to join in activities that they would like to do.

As well as the web based information below, there are also a series of 6 printed leaflets.  These can be downloaded from the links below, or hard copied versions can be obtained by e-mailing data@mdsltd.uk.com or telephoning 020 8676 9989.

The six basic leaflets are:

  1. Children's rights to communicate their views  and be listened to
  2. Choosing a service for your child
  3. Expectations
  4. The Equality Act
  5. What is risk?
  6. What services need to know - a leaflet aimed at  service providers

Some earlier copies of the printed leaflets feature information on the Disability Discrimination Act rather than the Equalty Act.   The DDA leaflet can be downloaded from this link.