East Sussex mother demands job security whilst her daughter battles cancer

By Frankie Elliott
Published 28th Sep 2023, 11:43 BST
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A Peacehaven mother has called on the government to make it mandatory for employers to keep jobs open for parents with seriously ill children.

Christina Harris’s daughter Skye was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in December 2021, leading to the mother-of-two quitting her job to help save her child's life.

Christina wrote on her GoFundMe page: "Our world was ripped apart and our lives turned upside down in a split second and we had a very long (2 and a half years) awful journey ahead to save her life. As any parent would do, I dropped everything to be by her side 24/7.”

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"My life was now medication, chemotherapy, non stop hospital appointments, general anaesthetics, lumbar punctures, bone marrow biopsies, sickness, temperatures, countless admissions to hospital, blood infections and the list goes on and on and worst of all, I had to watch my little girl go through things no child should ever go through.”