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After-school care is just one more service that children who have special needs have long lacked but, as Jackie Cosh discovers, change is getting under way Both Anne-Marie Dunn and Fraser Quin were parents with children at after-school clubs when, seeing the opportunity for more clubs in the Edinburgh area, they decided to establish Kidzcare. The company was set up in January 2000, and in August 2002 they opened their first club for children with special needs at St Crispin's school in Edinburgh.

Both Anne-Marie Dunn and Fraser Quin were parents with children at after-school clubs when, seeing the opportunity for more clubs in the Edinburgh area, they decided to establish Kidzcare. The company was set up in January 2000, and in August 2002 they opened their first club for children with special needs at St Crispin's school in Edinburgh.

Fraser Quin explains how the idea came about. 'There was an autistic boy in one of our after-school clubs and his mum was desperate for a club to be set up for children with special needs. She approached us and we got into talks with the school. We were a bit nervous at first, as we didn't have a great deal of experience of working with disabled children.'

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