{"id":452014,"date":"2026-03-01T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452014\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:13:11","slug":"parents-of-seriously-ill-child-tell-of-exhaustion-after-being-refused-respite-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452014\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of seriously ill child tell of &#8216;exhaustion&#8217; after being refused respite care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham Children&#8217;s Trust is the body responsible for providing social care and support services for children, young people, and families in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A letter from the trust, shared by the family, said its panel had considered Tilly&#8217;s needs but did not believe there were any unmet needs and that a child of Tilly&#8217;s age needed to be with her primary care givers to ensure good attachment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Panel recommend grandparents are brought fully on board with training around this to support the family as a whole to manage this,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust had known grandparents were unable to help as they had told staff during assessments, Dan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So two of our grandparents are unfortunately no longer present, one works full time and the other one has her own health concerns,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham Children&#8217;s Trust is the body responsible for providing social care and support services for children, young people,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-452014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}