A Sevenoaks couple have received a pay-out from a hospital trust after their son was left severely brain damaged.

Christian Corion has severe whole body dykentic cerebral palsy, significant learning difficulties and visual impairment. The seven-year-old also has limited mobility and is fed through a tube.

After being born in 2007 he was discharged from Lewisham Hospital fit and well, but developed jaundice.

His parents, Chris and Kay, took him back to hospital when he was five days old but there was substandard care in his treatment for jaundice, including a delay in giving him phototherapy and transfusions.

As a result, Christian suffered severe brain damage.

The Corion family instructed medical negligence lawyers at Irwin Mitchell to investigate Christian's treatment at the hospital, which is run by the Lewisham and Greenwhich NHS Trust.

The trust admitted liability for Christian's injuries and the family received an interim payment which has allowed his parents and two brothers to move to a new house with specialist equipment.

The family is now backing World Cerebral Palsy Day, a national initiative which takes place today.

This year Irwin Mitchell is partnering with national charity, Brainwave, on World Cerebral Palsy Day to help raise awareness about the condition, which affects more than 17 million people around the world.

Brainwave was set up to help children with disabilities to achieve greater independence.

They work with families and schools and aim to improve children’s mobility, communication skills and learning potential through educational and physical therapies.

Jane Weakley, a specialist medical negligence lawyer at Irwin Mitchell, representing the Corion family, said: “We have been able to arrange a care and rehabilitation package for Christian and his family so that he is able to access specialist therapies and equipment including moving to a more suitable temporary accommodation and wheelchair adapted vehicle."

A spokesman for the Lewisham and Greenwhich NHS Trust said: "We have apologised to Christian Corion and his family for the shortcomings in his care at Lewisham Hospital in 2007.

"We are deeply saddened by this case and following a full investigation we took a number of steps, including introducing new equipment in A&E and community midwifery services to detect and treat jaundice in babies, to do all we can to prevent tragedies such as this happening again.”