Biography
Jen Craft has engaged extensively on learning disability and autism matters, particularly concerning children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), through 40 debate speeches across multiple health and social care topics. Her contributions have focused notably on systemic accountability gaps in healthcare provision for disabled children, access to therapies and equipment, and the need for better coordination between education and health services under Education, Health and Care Plans. She has also raised concerns about vulnerable groups including looked-after children on hospital wards, maternity system failings, and mental capacity safeguards for people with learning disabilities following recent legal changes.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…My plea to the Secretary of State today is for any upcoming changes, particularly through the SEND reform, to take account of what disabled children are able to do, and for her to meet the charity Teach Me Too, which campaigns for all children, regardless of their disability, to have access to literacy from an early ag…”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism6th of 899195.0
- Mental health24th of 88096.0
- Children's health4th of 15727.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing17th of 30215.0
- NHS waiting lists101st of 53412.0
- Maternity & neonatal68th of 43812.0
- Dementia30th of 2519.0
- Elderly care & frailty14th of 2369.0
- Health inequalities48th of 2889.0
- A&E & ambulance response55th of 2586.0
- Cancer230th of 6226.0
- GP access49th of 2416.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking41st of 1393.0
- Dentistry access100th of 1943.0
- Palliative & end of life care329th of 5683.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- Unpaid carers158th of 2833.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Assisted dying193rd of 3713.0
What they’ve said
“…It would place a statutory duty on ICBs to deliver the health part of EHCPs, matching the existing duty on local authorities. The fundamental concept that there must be a meaningful legal requirement on health services to deliver the support set out in EHCPs is critical.”
Health Bill · 2026-09-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…As I was saying, the statutory duty to deliver EHCPs sits solely with local authorities. In practice, that means that councils are the only bodies that can be held legally responsible for providing the service that a disabled child needs to access education, including health services such as occupational or speech and…”
Health Bill · 2026-09-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Bill, which will protect and strengthen our health service for decades to come, but for children with special educational needs and disabilities who are disproportionately impacted by not getting the healthcare that they need, I believe that it should go further.”
Health Bill · 2026-09-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I believe that it is most acutely felt in paediatric care and in the special educational needs and disabilities system, where a mechanism for holding public bodies to account already exists: EHCPs.”
Health Bill · 2026-09-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Her daughter Winnie has cerebral palsy, and her EHCP clearly states that she requires a physiotherapist, but the family have been forced to arrange that for themselves. Countless other families are in the same position.”
Health Bill · 2026-09-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
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