PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Disability: Children (29 June 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help disabled children whose conditions have worsened during the covid-19 outbreak to recover progress on their healthcare outcomes.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

We are working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health services and therapies for disabled children. In 2020, NHS England and NHS Improvement published guidance that restoration of essential community services, including therapeutic support, must be prioritised for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities aged up to 25 years old and who have an Education Health and Care Plan in place or are going through an assessment for one. We have invested £6.6 billion from March to September to help the National Health Service recover from the pandemic and asked that systems ensure health inequalities are tackled in their recovery plans.

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
7 July 2021