The move is funded through the expansion of the Early Support Pilot Programme, a 13m four-year Government initiative launched in 2002 to support families with disabled children aged under three.
Parents will now have a record of their child's needs which they can take with them wherever they go. The deafness charity the RNID said this would mean an end to confusion for families who have faced difficulties when moving to a new area because there was no standard protocol in place.
John Ford, director of the Early Support programme, said, 'There has been a call for this type of resource for many, many years.' He said a similar system had just been commissioned for young children with visual impairment.
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