Zoe’s Place and funding for children’s hospices
Tabled 21 October 2024 by Ian Byrne
That this House notes its deep concern at the announcement that children’s hospice Zoe’s Place in Liverpool is at risk of imminent closure; applauds the phenomenal response to this shocking news in the city and thanks the huge charitable drive to raise £5 million by 9 November to save Zoe’s Place; notes its alarm that children’s hospices across the country are facing huge funding challenges; therefore calls on the Government to urgently put funding into children’s hospices, allowing Zoe’s Place and children’s hospices across the country to continue to care for seriously ill children and their families into the future; specifically calls on the Government to maintain and increase the £25 million Children’s Hospice Grant into the future and return it to being a centrally-distributed funding stream; and more broadly calls on the Government to review the funding of children’s hospices to ensure all seriously ill children and their families receive high quality care when and where they need it.
Signatories (35)
- Ian Byrne Sponsor
- John McDonnell
- Richard Burgon
- Kim Johnson
- Rebecca Long Bailey
- Andy McDonald
- Apsana Begum
- Jon Trickett
- Kate Osborne
- Grahame Morris
- Cat Smith
- Rosie Duffield
- Ian Lavery
- Clive Lewis
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy
- Steve Witherden
- Imran Hussain
- Brian Leishman
- Nadia Whittome
- Jim Shannon
- Ayoub Khan
- Mary Kelly Foy
- Paula Barker
- Neil Duncan-Jordan
- Ms Marie Rimmer
- Iqbal Mohamed
- Dan Carden
- Sorcha Eastwood
- Chris Webb
- Sammy Wilson
- Shockat Adam
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Rachael Maskell
- Dawn Butler
- Adrian Ramsay