Dame Caroline Dinenage, Member of Parliament for Gosport and former Minister met with Claire Coutinho MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Children, Families & Wellbeing at the Department of Education to urge the Minister to improve educational support for children and young people undergoing treatment for, or recovering from, cancer.
Children diagnosed with cancer are likely to have reduced educational outcomes due to prolonged absences and the impact of treatment. Yet there is little government evidence on the long-term implications of this, or any standard plans in place to mitigate this.
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