News and Comment

Yesterday, on Thursday 25 October, Demelza Children's Hospice in Kent had a very special visit from our Ambassador - the world-class Magician, and Britain's Got Talent winner - Lance Corporal Richard Jones. Richard spent the afternoon meeting seriously ill children,...

England’s most vulnerable children are unable to access the full range of care and support that the government has committed to, a new report by a cross-party group of MPs and peers has revealed. Babies, children and young-people with life-limiting...

On the recent World Poetry Day, I discovered ‘The Elephant in the Room’. A metaphor for discussing mortality, it charts the ‘large and squatting’ elephant we squeeze around politely with ‘How are you?’ and ‘I’m fine’. I was particularly struck...

We have used our Budget representation to call on Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to increase funding for children's palliative care when he delivers his speech to parliament 29 October. We have also asked the Treasury to provide more...

Together for Short Lives has helped more families than ever before this year, providing vital help and legal support and fundraising for the UK’s children’s hospice and palliative care charities that they rely on. Our new impact report for 2017/18,...

I am very excited to have in my hands a hot-off-the-press copy of The Guide to Children’s Palliative Care. This is now the fourth edition of the Guide – and, can you believe it, the third edition I have been...