Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to increase public awareness of the symptoms of brain tumours in children.
We have no current plans to do so. However, we welcome the public facing campaign of the charity HeadSmart, which has increased awareness of symptoms that could indicate brain cancer in children and young people. As well as making the National Health Service in England aware of the benefits of HeadSmart, we have highlighted the values of it with Directors of Public Health, health visitors and school nurses, to encourage their use by professionals in signposting to specialist advice.