News and Comment

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...

We have launched our new guide to commissioning, planning and delivering children’s palliative care based around the unique needs of the child and family. Now in its fourth edition, A Guide to Children’s Palliative Care, has played a pivotal role...

Last week, my limited scientific knowledge (a barely scraped GCSE pass) was stretched to the limit by a brilliant presentation given by Professor Persis Amrolia, from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, about research into CAR-T (chimeric...

We have welcomed a new law which, the government expects, will introduce a right to two weeks’ paid leave for working parents across the UK who are bereaved of a child from 2020. The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay Act...

We have delivered a petition to 10 Downing Street which is calling on the government to fund, not fail seriously ill children in England. Signed by 6,670 people, the petition calls on Prime Minister Theresa May to use some of...