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Aiming High for Disabled Children

Please note that the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme no longer exists under the coalition government. However, the current government has shown its commitment to many of the principles of Aiming High with the exception (so far as we understand) of the national indicator.

Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC): Better support for families, was launched in May 2007, as the transformation programme for disabled children's services. AHDC was jointly delivered by the Department for children, schools and families (DCSF) and the Department of Health (DH)

The Government wants disabled children to be a priority, both nationally and locally: a commitment confirmed in the NHS operating framework the Child Health Strategy, Healthy lives, brighter futures and in the Children's Plan.

Supported by substantial new funding and measures designed to make the system work better, the Government is assisting professionals, managers and children's services commissioners to deliver the programme.

These were some of the main features of the programme: