New figures exclusively revealed by the BBC shows that 80,683 disabled young people in England and Wales will miss out on Child Trust Fund savings worth £209,801,255. Parent campaigner Andrew Turner, working with Contact, calculated the total loss of money to disabled young people who lack mental capacity over the course of the Child Trust Fund scheme maturity.
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