Equipment for Disabled Children APPG
First Registered: 08/04/2020 • Last updated on: 29/12/2021
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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. Family Fund 2020-21
24/01/2022 - Early Day Motions
Found: to families on low incomes raising disabled or seriously ill children; commends their role in supporting
5. 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
1. 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 this - Speech Link
2: the best results for some sensorially-impacted children? That underlines the importance of face-to-face - Speech Link
3: That is an excellent point and it was well made. Children with disabilities have often lost out on educational - Speech Link
2. 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
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. Oral Answers to Questions
25/11/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: effect of the covid-19 outbreak on (a) women, (b) disabled people and (c) Black, Asian and minority ethnic - Speech Link
2: effect of the covid-19 outbreak on (a) women, (b) disabled people and (c) Black, Asian and minority ethnic - Speech Link
3: background. We have taken action to ensure that disabled people have access to disability benefits, financial - 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 Students' Allowances
asked by: Emma Hardy
25/11/2020
... what steps he is taking to ensure that the application for disabled students' allowance (a) recognises the challenges of the applicant's disability and (b) is (i) straightforward to complete and (ii) processed in a timely manner. 5. 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.
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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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