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Children of Helen House

Series 1

Episode 1

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One North WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One North East & Cumbria

Documentary series about the world's first centre to provide respite and end-of-life care for children with life-shortening conditions, set up in 1982 by the visionary Sister Frances Dominica.

Louise and Leyton spend sixteen hours a day looking after their one-year-old, while Sandra and Kevin Oakley, daughter, Helen, has a metabolic condition that damaged the movement and speech areas of her brain when she was a baby, are struggling to simply have a summer holiday. Show less

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