Jeremy Hunt MP gave the opening speech in yesterday's Opposition Day Debate on the Life Chances of Disabled Children.In his role as Shadow Minister for Disabled People, Jeremy called on all political parties to scale up their ambition and build a social care system that is worthy of disabled children and their parents. Jeremy demanded more from the Government regarding their child poverty targets and urged them to look beyond policies that focused on income transfer and instead tackle the causes of poverty by removing the barriers to social mobility.During the debate, Jeremy outlined how the bureaucracy and complexity that exists within the benefit and support system for disabled children and their families acts as a significant barrier to employment, educational attainment and independent living. He argued that the current system makes parents battle to ensure that they get the right support package that they are entitled to and traps them into poverty and dependency on the state. Speaking after the debate, Jeremy said: “We all support the aspirations of the child poverty targets but in order to achieve these we must look at breaking the link between disability and poverty. Policies that support disabled children must therefore be integral to our poverty strategy. We must scale up our ambition, remove the barriers to social mobility and give disabled children and their parents a system worthy of their great efforts.”To read his speech in full check out the Articles and Speeches page on this website.