Biography
Alistair Strathern has engaged extensively on health and social care through 35 debate speeches, with particular focus on children's services including special educational needs, therapeutic play in healthcare, and children in care, alongside issues affecting vulnerable populations such as palliative care funding, cancer support, and kinship care. His contributions reflect his background as a children's lead for a local authority, and he frequently raises concerns about system failures and funding gaps affecting constituents, such as the Garden House hospice funding shortfall and NHS support for children with additional needs. Strathern has also addressed broader policy implementation issues including the Online Safety Act and employment rights, demonstrating engagement across the health and social care landscape.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…people right across my constituency that the state was not working, whether that meant putting more money into special educational needs and disabilities provision, investing to fix crumbling schools or offering a record settlement for repairing roads.”
Record by topic
- Unpaid carers11th of 28342.0
- Learning disability & autism67th of 89942.0
- Mental health188th of 88018.0
- NHS waiting lists207th of 5346.0
- Palliative & end of life care213th of 5686.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- Children's health56th of 1573.0
- Cancer365th of 6223.0
What they’ve said
“…an all too often be seen as a nice-to-have in children’s healthcare, rather than as a fundamental part of doing paediatric care well. I had the privilege recently of joining fantastic play therapists such as Christina at my local hospital and seeing the transformative impact that therapeutic play, done well, can have o…”
Therapeutic Play and Children’s Healthcare · 2026-01-06 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I welcome the Government’s commitment to a strategy for palliative care, which is as overdue as it is important, but it will mean nothing for hospices that are not able to last out until it comes into effect.”
Palliative Care Strategy · 2025-11-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…As was identified in yesterday’s landmark announcement, men’s mental health, its issues and strategies have not been forensically focused on in this place for far too long. I know about that from my own challenges, after a bad concussion left me out of work for the best part of six months.”
International Men’s Day · 2025-11-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I thank my hon. Friend for the way in which he has tirelessly championed young people and their mental health since entering Parliament. Over the summer I held a number of workshops with young people and families with special educational needs, as well as schools, to understand their concerns about the ways the current…”
Educational Assessment System Reform · 2025-10-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…One of the shortcomings that led to is not enough young people with special educational needs having those needs identified early with support being put in place at an early age when, as we all know, the evidence tells us it is most effective.”
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life · 2025-07-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
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