EVERY CHILD MATTERS CAMPAIGN

That this House is aware of the campaign, Every Child Matters, which is currently asking from the Government a budgetary commitment to pilot a scheme to give winter fuel allowances to families in the UK with disabled children in their family; recognises that with rising fuel costs research evidence shows that two thirds of families in this category struggle to pay their fuel bills in the wintertime, a factor not least affected by the need to maintain constant home heat levels to ward off infections and bouts of restricted mobility caused directly by cold conditions; and calls upon the Government to respond positively to the campaign which would both relieve suffering and hardship whilst helping to lift up to 40,000 vulnerable families out of poverty.