'My 6-Year-Old's Summer Holiday Club Costs £250 A Week. His Twin's Costs £890'

Families are opening up about the extortionate cost of summer holidaychildcare provision for disabled children – and the postcode lottery that surrounds being able to access it in the first place. 

Melissa Mould, who lives in south-west London and works in TV production, shares three children with her husband Andrew: two-year-old Remy, and their six-year-old twins Frankie and Otis.

Frankie has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair full-time. His family have found accessing suitable holiday provision for him extremely difficult – and when they are able to find support, it costs more than triple what they’d pay for Otis.

“The logistics of organisin...