Children who need Palliative Care APPG

First Registered: 29/03/2017 • Last updated on: 28/03/2025

To inform policy which secures the best quality of life and death for the growing number of babies, children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. To improve awareness of their needs and to make sure they are understood by those who can help, including government and parliament.

Note: All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country. APPGs have no official status within Parliament.

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4 Current APPG Officers

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Siobhain McDonagh

Chair & Registered Contact

Labour - Mitcham and Morden

Joined: 24th January 2024

4 APPG Memberships
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Brain Tumours , Households in Temporary Accommodation , Tamils

Lord Balfe

Co-Chair

Conservative - Life peer

Joined: 5th April 2023

7 APPG Memberships
Bangladesh , Citizens' Rights , Cuba , Fair Elections , Occupational Safety and Health , Single-Parent Families , Social, Cooperative, and Community Economy

Peter Dowd

Officer

Labour - Bootle

Joined: 29th December 2021

4 APPG Memberships
Falkland Islands , Genetic, Rare and Undiagnosed Conditions , Italy , Liverpool City Region

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

Officer

Crossbench - Life peer

Joined: 5th April 2023

4 APPG Memberships
Carbon Monoxide , Children of Alcoholics , Dying Well , Hospice and End of Life Care

Contact Details

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Registered Contact:

Dame Siobhain McDonagh MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4678.

Email: mcdonaghs@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Ben Delllow, Together for Short Lives. Tel: 0117 989 7820

Email: ben.dellow@togetherforshortlives.org.uk

Secretariat:

Together for Short Lives acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/

Group's Website:

https://www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/changing-lives/speaking-up-for-children/policy-advocacy/all-party-parliamentary-group-for-children-who-need-palliative-care