It’s difficult keeping any child occupied in the school holidays, doubly so if that child is autistic.  School routines have gone to be replaced with whatever activities the child’s parents can arrange. Up until now my daughter has paid for her son to attend activities 2 or 3 days a week during the holiday’s, this despite the fact that the budget for his activities has been cut by over half this year.  These activities serve two purposes, they give the child some much needed routine and they also offer the child’s parents some much needed respite. Not any more though, the cost has just shot up from £20 a session to £75.  On a yearly budget of £500 for activities it’s pretty obvious to see that at these prices not many days worth of activities will take place.

That’s it, that’s all, no holiday activities for my grandson and no respite for his mum.