Equipment for Disabled Children APPG
First Registered: 08/04/2020 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021
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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. Equipment for Disabled Children
08/04/2020 - APPGs
Found: barriers that prevent disabled and terminally ill children from receiving the right equipment at the right time
3. 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
4. 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
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. 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
5. Toilets (Provision and Accessibility)
27/06/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: Places toilets should not be confused with standard disabled toilets. They are designed to meet the needs of - 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. Taxis: Disabled
asked by: Peter Kyle
18/01/2018
... what steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled people are represented on the working group on taxi and private hire vehicle licensing. 5. Disabled Students' Allowances
asked by: Barry Sheerman
21/07/2020
...000 applying to both full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate recipients of that allowance on those students with the highest needs.
4 Current APPG Officers
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Alevis , Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder , Breast Cancer , Cyprus , Future Generations , Green Deal Misselling , Missing Children and Adults , Social Media , Tamils , Thalassaemia
Access to Medicines and Medical Devices , Assistive Technology , Cancer , Catalonia , Chile , Dark Skies , Diabetes , Electoral Campaigning Transparency , Health , Mentoring , Political Literacy , Smoking and Health , Taiwan
Neil Gray
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Airdrie and Shotts
Joined: 8th April 2020Childcare and Early Education , Children who need Palliative Care , Poverty , Snooker
Antibiotics , Family Business , Pharmacy , Rural Business , Science and Technology in Agriculture , Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
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
Group's Website:
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