[SENco-forum] Carers Allowance

Nothing really relevant except that my cleaner succeeded in getting it for
her son (£50 per week).

 I think it has to be applied for more than once on the basis that the
child's need for care decreased as they get older.  Try an ADHD site as they
might give info on what boxes to tick on the no doubt huge and terrifying
form.

I always felt the need for this allowance to help out with my children (all
4 with dyslexia) and while this may not seem a significant SEN the
organisational & social skills problems that go with it are above and beyond
the normal requirements for parenting.  £ 50 per week to pay said
cleaner/babysitters (couldn't trust one of my own to look after the others -
too much risk!) would have gone some way towards helping out.  We had to put
in a large and expensive extension to get an additional bedroom so that we
could keep them apart and gain some peace at nights (eventually). Now I have
4 little pig pens to shovel out every week but at least they are not driving
each other and myself insane with constant squeaking about who has done what
to their belongings.  All room doors had bolts set at 5ft to exclude the
young and less malleable ones from ransacking in years gone by.

In fact having just given a course for parents and children with learning
difficulties the thing the mums liked most was the fact that I had (1.)
survived and 2. seemed so together.  Little do they know!

Sharon Tringham

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