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Reform of Social Care

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The children's hospice movement has done immensely good work over the years. I am aware of that in my own constituency through the work of East Anglia's Children's Hospices, and I am sure many Members also completely understand. That movement's work has been done in circumstances in which a very small proportion of the resources for children's hospices comes from state sources. The palliative care funding review addresses both adult's and children's end-of-life care and palliative care and identifies per-patient funding for children as well as adults, and it therefore offers children's hospices precisely the same kind of security in the future as adult hospices.