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Children's palliative care professionals, sector leaders, policymakers, researchers and system-change advocates from across the UK are being invited to come together next spring to help shape the future of children's palliative care. Early bird tickets are now on sale for...
Our trustee Brad McLean reflects on his personal experience of children's palliative care after his son Stanley died aged 18 months in 2012. Brad and his family were supported with grief counselling by the bereavement team from East Anglia’s Children’s...
Budget 2026 includes welcome measures that could ease some of the financial pressure on families caring for children with serious illnesses. However, Together for Short Lives is disappointed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has failed to invest to end...
When the Chancellor delivers the Budget on Wednesday 28 October, families of children with serious illnesses will be hoping the government backs up its commitment to improve palliative and end of life care with the investment needed to turn ambition...
Together for Short Lives welcomes the UK Government's announcement that, from April 2027, employees who lose a spouse or partner, parent, adult child or sibling will have a new statutory right to bereavement leave. We also welcome the introduction of...
We're so excited to announce a new partnership with the Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation (IFCF), which has created the IFCF Moments That Matter Fund to help families caring for children with serious illnesses create precious memories together. Thanks to a...
Leading UK children’s palliative care charity Together for Short Lives is urging MPs to maintain their focus on palliative care despite the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill falling at second reading stage in the House of Commons. A...
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