Health and Social Care Committee
18 March 2026
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Health and Social Care Committee House of Commons
00:05 - 02:13
Speaker 1
Welcome to this one off session of the Health and Social Care Select Committee where we'll be exploring delivering the health aspects of education, health, and care plans. I'd like to start at the top before we move to introducing our panel to say a massive thank you to the group of parents who came to meet, excuse me, me in my capacity as select committee chair in Oxford, West, and Abingdon. I'm aware that there are some in the room today. Their powerful testimony has rooted, what we're doing today and will be taken as official evidence. In particular, two went public with their story, and I think just to start by just talking very briefly about the challenges that they face.
So one is Sonia, who's in the room with us today, spoke about her son, Stefan, who has an EHCP. And as part of the issues that he faces, he's in a wheelchair because he's got MED, which affects his hips. He needs an adult support to get around, and they're just isn't that support in his school. So he has a mobile phone that he keeps on him at all times so that he can call his mother if he ever gets stuck in a classroom and quite literally cannot get from one class to the next. And they identified that it was the funding that was the problem here, not the school.
The school actually is not the issue. Another was Tommy. Tommy's father, Chris Fulton, came to speak to us, and he talked about so Tommy, who's five, has significant developmental delay. Chris described battling through the courts to help ensure Tommy's provision. He described the health element as eye opening and light touch.
He said what it leads to is a thin sense of provision for the difficulties that he faced. It was extraordinary in that meeting how almost with one voice every single family had issues bar none. So we'll move to asking the panel to introduce themselves. But as soon as we do, then I'll move to the question, why is the system not currently working? So we'll start with doctor Tracy Lavrick and then we'll go down, the panel.
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