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Inclusion for disabled children can seem daunting, but a new initiative aims to show that extending normal good practice is the main requirement, reports Sue Sillitoe Every year, 1,500 babies in the UK are affected by cerebral palsy, a condition caused by an injury to the brain before or soon after birth. This figure equates to one in every 400 births, and the children will all have varying degrees of difficulty with movement, posture and co-ordination.

Every year, 1,500 babies in the UK are affected by cerebral palsy, a condition caused by an injury to the brain before or soon after birth. This figure equates to one in every 400 births, and the children will all have varying degrees of difficulty with movement, posture and co-ordination.

For parents with a child affected by the condition, the task of finding a suitable childminder, or integrating their child into a nursery, might seem daunting. However, this situation could be about to improve with the help of an initiative launched jointly by the charities Scope and HemiHelp, which respectively deal with cerebral palsy and hemiplegia (in which one side of the body is affected).

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