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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

Parents caring for seriously ill children in UK could get financial support under ‘Hugh’s law’

Ceri and Frances Menai-Davis.
Ceri and Frances Menai-Davis, whose son Hugh died in 2021. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Thousands of parents who are forced to become full-time carers after their child becomes seriously ill would be entitled to financial support and job protections under new “Hugh’s law” proposals being floated by the government.

Hugh’s law is named after Hugh Menai-Davis, who was six when he died in 2021 just under a year after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and undergoing 10 months of intensive treatment, much of it in hospital.

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