Equipment for Disabled Children APPG
First Registered: 08/04/2020 • Last updated on: 06/10/2021
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To remove barriers that prevent disabled and terminally ill children from receiving the right equipment at the right time. Working across parliament and with health and social care professionals, decision makers and families to inform and shine a light on best practice.
1. Disabled Children's Partnership - written evidence
21/01/2019 - Inquiry: Funding of local authorities’ children’s services - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
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Found: Written evidence - Disabled Children's PartnershipWritten evidence submitted by the Disabled Children’s Partnership
2. Together for Short Lives - written evidence
04/09/2019 - Inquiry: School holiday poverty - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: and empower families caring for seriously ill children, and to build a strong and sustainable children’s
3. Together for Short Lives - written evidence
24/07/2019 - Inquiry: Spending Review - Work and Pensions Committee
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Found: and empower families caring for seriously ill children, and to build a strong and sustainable children’s
4. Unequal impact: Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the impact on people with protected characteristics
05/05/2020 - Inquiry: Unequal impact: Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the impact on people with protected characteristics - Women and Equalities Committee
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Found: health emergency poses many issues for disabled adults, children and young people, as well as their families
5. British Assistive Technology Association - written evidence
27/11/2018 - Inquiry: Special educational needs and disabilities - Education Committee
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Found: Technology Association Assessment of and support for children and young people with SEND Assistive technology
1. Covid-19: Social Care Services
23/04/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: social and domiciliary care for disabled and vulnerable adults and children, and the case for ensuring the - Speech Link
2: the supply and delivery of personal protection equipment and for the testing of all NHS and social care - Speech Link
3: to reliable and ongoing supplies of protective equipment to protect residents and staff, rapid and accessible - Speech Link
2. Disabled Children: Accessible and Inclusive Education
09/12/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: considered accessible and inclusive education for disabled children.It is an absolute honour to present - Speech Link
2: the best results for some sensorially-impacted children? That underlines the importance of face-to-face - Speech Link
3. Children in Care
30/04/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: steps they are taking to safeguard vulnerable children in care during the COVID-19 pandemic following - Speech Link
2: responsibilities for the protection of vulnerable children. The measures, which are to be used only when - Speech Link
3: offered to some of the country’s most vulnerable children. No evidence has been produced to back up the - Speech Link
4. Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance, Young Carer Grants, Short-term Assistance and Winter Heating Assistance) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2021
29/06/2021 - Grand Committee
1: a payment to provide financial assistance for disabled people in Scotland, called disability assistance - Speech Link
2: payment policy back in 2019, they said that 170,000 children could benefit, but the Scottish Government’s priority - Speech Link
5. Covid-19: Disability-Inclusive Response
15/10/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: it asked the Government to meet the needs of disabled people in the allocation of additional funding - Speech Link
asked by: Emma Lewell-Buck
06/11/2018
... what proportion of the £55 million of the Disabled Facilities Grant will be allocated to programmes targeted at children. 2. Medical Equipment: Children
asked by: Baroness Bertin
22/12/2017
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the 2014 report published by the British Healthcare Trades Association on the economic benefits of improved provision of equipment for disabled and terminally ill children. 3. Children: Video Equipment
asked by: Lord Field of Birkenhead
14/10/2017
... what estimate she has made of (a) the amount of time children under the age of three spend in front of screens and (b) the effect of that screen time on their development. 4. Disabled Facilities Grants
asked by: Karin Smyth
29/01/2021
... what assessment he has made of the capacity of local councils to provide payments to successful claimants of the disabled facilities grant within legal time limit. 5. Disabled Facilities Grants
asked by: Shabana Mahmood
19/05/2021
... if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility for Disabled Facilities Grants to include emergency evacuation from buildings at risk of fire safety faults.
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Alevis , Breast Cancer , Cyprus , Future Generations , Missing Children and Adults , Social Media , Thalassaemia , Young People's Health
Antisemitism , Beer , Cameroon , Cancer , Dark Skies , Eggs, Pigs and Poultry , Equitable Life Policyholders , Fair Business Banking , Financial Resilience , Hairdressing, Barbering and Cosmetology , HIV and AIDS , Hospitality, Events and Major Food and Drink Businesses in Wales , Italy , Learning Disability , Medical Cannabis under Prescription , Modern Languages , Parkinson's , Parkrun , Pension Clawback , Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse , Personal Banking and Fairer Financial Services , Public Legal Education and Pro Bono , Roadside Rescue and Recovery , Rowing , Rugby League , Rugby Union Football Club , Single Parent Families , Tennis , Timber Industries , Wales in the World , Wrestling
Betting and Gaming , Ceramics , Coalfield Communities , Financial Technology , Humanist , Personal Banking and Fairer Financial Services , Social Media
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Business Owners , Crossrail , Dance , Hockey , Women in Parliament
Access to Medicines and Medical Devices , Assistive Technology , Banning Trophy Hunting , Cancer , Dark Skies , Diabetes , Disability , Health , Mentoring , Political Literacy , Radiotherapy , Smoking and Health , Taiwan
Access to Medicines and Medical Devices , Alevis , Bahá'í Faith , Beer , Blood Cancer , Carbon Monoxide , Cerebral Palsy , Christianity in the Holy Land , Cleaning and Hygiene , Coastal Communities , Dairy , Diabetes , Disability , Eggs, Pigs and Poultry , Energy Studies , Equitable Life Policyholders , Eye Health and Visual Impairment , Farming , Health in all Policies , Healthy Homes and Buildings , Heart Valve Disease , Hong Kong , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Malawi , Marine Energy , Mentoring , Muscular Dystrophy , Obesity , Pakistani Minorities , Pancreatic Cancer , Pigeon Racing , Pro-Life , Professional Sales , Reserves and Cadets , Respiratory Health , Shooting and Conservation , Terminal Illness , Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics , Wood Panel Industry
Contact Details
Show/HideRegistered Contact:
Bambos Charalambous MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3460.
Email: bambos.charalambous.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Clare Dangerfield, Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children, Hemlock Way, Cannock, Staffordshire WS11 7GF . Tel: 01543 4627 777
Email: appg@newlifecharity.co.uk
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