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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jacquiel" data-source="post: 160787" data-attributes="member: 29407">I would appeal if we got refused because the money you get does help compensate for the time off work (in my case unpaid) for clinic visits, in our case also mental health team visits (unpaid for me), the having to go to school to collect because they dont think he is well enough to be there or to get himself home safely because of poor control and he is high, confused, whatever - sometimes genuine, sometimes not (unpaid again) the getting up in the night with a severely hypo child, the trips to a and e ...If they have decent control and can manage themselves - no problem. Also at 16 they in theory are meant to fill in the form themselves - in any case sign it themselves. It is their claim, not the parents on behalf of the childs.It is a different style of form at 16 (adult) too.</blockquote>

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