A bid to save one of Liverpool’s most vital children’s hospices threatened with closure has been raised in Parliament.
The entire city was rocked by the announcement earlier this month that Zoe’s Place in West Derby would face closure at the end of the year as the lease on its current home on Yew Tree Lane is expiring and it had “insufficient time and money” to relocate.
The entire city was rocked by the announcement earlier this month that Zoe’s Place in West Derby would face closure at the end of the year as the lease on its current home on Yew Tree Lane is expiring and it had “insufficient time and money” to relocate.
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00:00communities are resilient.
00:01Kim Jones
00:02Thank you Mr Speaker. Zoe's place in the West Derby area of Liverpool is a hospice
00:08providing support to sick children and their families. It's been threatened with closure,
00:13has to find £5 million by the end of the year. Does the Deputy Prime Minister agree
00:17with me that hospices like these need to be on a statutory footing and not reliant on
00:21charitable funding?
00:24I thank my Honourable Friend for that question and the hospice situation in this country
00:29has faced significant challenges because of the 14 years of devastation under the Conservatives.
00:35The Health Secretary has already raised these issues and knows that this is of importance
00:39and I'll make sure she gets a meeting.