Alex Cunningham MP

Labour MP for Stockton North

It’s time the government step up to support kinship care

For too long we have been failing kinship carers. The thousands of grandparents, aunties, uncles, siblings and friends raising children when their parents are unable to – the “silent and unheard majority in the children’s social care system”.

08 Sep 2020 Economy

If this Government is serious about ‘levelling up’, they must put an end to exploitative unpaid work experience

Many work experience opportunities are unpaid, so remain inaccessible to those from underprivileged backgrounds. My Private Members Bill will see opportunities opened up to all, not just the privileged few.

29 Jan 2020 Communities

Britain’s homelessness crisis needs more than random pots of money, it needs a serious strategy

A first step the Government must now take to tackle homelessness is scrapping the Vagrancy Act and end the criminalisation of homeless people, writes Alex Cunningham MP.

12 Mar 2018 Social affairs

'Watered down service' of respite care will put more pressure on families

Ahead of his Adjournment debate on the provision of respite care for vulnerable adults on Teesside, Alex Cunningham MP writes that families and vulnerable people deserve better than a menu of weaker provision to give the illusion of choice on respite care.

Government Failing to Support Off-Mains Households

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17 Mar 2015 Environment

Government Failing to Support Off-Mains Households

Stockton North MP Alex Cunningham argues that the Government has failed households not connected to the mains gas supply. There are 3,000 of these properties in his own borough