Disabled Children's Service
The Disabled Children's Team is a specialist social work service for children with moderate to severe disabilities. The team carries out comprehensive assessments of the needs of the child and their family.
They provide domiciliary care, respite care (either within or outside the home) as well as referral to other services for family support (eg play schemes, other leisure activities and voluntary agencies). The service also runs a Sharing Care Scheme which provides specialist childminders.
Please also see the Children with Disabilities Hackney Directory page.
Disabled Children’s Plan consultation
The key themes for the Disabled Children’s Plan 2009-2012 will be -
• Increased parental involvement
• Increased involvement from young people
• Increased quality and quantity in Short Breaks provision
• Improved access to universal service
In order to complete the Plan we are seeking parents’ opinions on their experience of services provided by the Hackney Ark. If you would like to give us your feedback download the 
Hackney Ark Questionnaire (66KB) and return it to the address on the right of this page.
Download the Disabled Children’s Plan 2009-2012 (Draft) (286KB)
Page updated: 11 Mar 2010