Marina Giblin

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443 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 28 Jun

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Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna · Alive and Kicking Full Episode 28/6/26 · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

helps you maintain who you are as a person.

So you have a life outside being a mother to an exceptional child.

So to juggle that and to, you know, to be able to do that and stay working to give you the financial choices that you need is is difficult because with a baby that has additional needs, you know, whether it be feeding or developmental delay, you can't just put them into a crush.

Because they won't survive 'cause nobody's going to spend three hours giving them a bottle.

So that was never an option for early childcare.

So then, you know, you have to try and source support.

So I always, from the very beginning, felt that we needed support.

And you know, financially because I was working, I was able to pay for that support.

But what I'd really like to see is, you know, people who ha need those additional needs from the early stages be identified and a social worker assigned at birth.

And then, you know, your benefits that you're entitled to made clear to you not to have to go searching around for them and then a personalised budget that you can hire additional support and help into the home to help you and give you the opportunity then to continue to work.

And there's debate around carers allowance, beans means tested.

Um there's a lot of debate, but very little action, if I'm honest.

And there's been a lot of legislation.

particularly around, you know, I mean the education, the Epson Act hasn't still been ratified, which was introduced the year Elsie was born and she's twenty one, going on twenty two.

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And it's only now.

coming in to, you know.

Relation.

Um there's no adult safeguarding legislation.

So there's a lot of talk and there's a review of the Disability Act from two thousand and five.

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