Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Ian Gibson (Labour), on Tuesday, 11 December 2007, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 74 members in total.

---

CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

That this House marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, celebrating survivors of childhood cancer; notes that children and young people stand a better chance than ever of surviving cancer, but can suffer physical and emotional effects of cancer or treatment throughout their lives; welcomes the announcement of the new National Cancer Survivorship Initiative; notes that children and young people should receive the educational support they need during treatment for cancer, and in transition back to school; notes that survivors of childhood cancer can suffer late effects which impact on their learning capacity and educational attainment and which demand timely and effective special educational needs support from schools; hopes that plans to raise the school leaving age to 18 years will be extended to include out of school education support for young people with cancer; and congratulates CLIC Sargent on its work to help survivors of childhood cancer to get their lives back.

---

Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

534 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Bob Spink

Lindsay Hoyle

Mark Durkan

Bob Russell

Subjects

Children Health services Diseases Schools

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk