Siobhain McDonagh MP | Hope in the Deep End Podcast Politics Series

Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.This episode was recorded as part of our Politics Series, where we speak to colleagues from all sides of the House, campaigners and activists about what keeps them hopeful in their work. Dame Siobhain McDonagh MP has been the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden since May 1997. She has led countless campaigns to secure decent housing, boost education, protect health services, secure jobs for young people and protect the less fortunate.She worked in the housing sector before becoming an MP and was London’s youngest councillor when she was elected to Merton Council in 1982. As Chair of the Housing Committee, she oversaw the demolition of the tower blocks in Phipps Bridge and their replacement by houses and gardens.Siobhain is the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation, which Shared Health is a co-secretariat of. The APPG's most recent campaign, the SAFE Protocol, called for councils to notify GPs and schools when homeless families are placed in temporary accommodation. The SAFE campaign's asks have been implemented in the Government's Child Poverty Strategy and the Homelessness Strategy, alongside an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill being welcomed and passed in the House of Lords.Follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @SharedhealthgmWant to appear on 'Hope in the Deep End'? Email us on [email protected]