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A free guide is now available for professionals to support young people with uncertain life-expectancy who want to experience intimacy, sex and relationships. Talking about Sex, Sexuality and Relationships: Guidance and Standards has been published by The Open University in partnership...

UK children’s palliative care charity, Together for Short Lives, has launched a new guide Young Person’s Guide to Personal Budgets in England, designed to help seriously ill young people to have more choice and freedom in how their care is delivered....

Hosted by former Martin House Children’s Hospice fundraising manager Stuart Andrew (Conservative MP for Pudsey), our ‘Care Around the Clock’ reception was an important opportunity for our sector to ask parliamentarians to press ministers and local health and social care...

It may be gloomy weather outside, but The Sun is definitely shining for children and families supported by seven UK hospices today, as a brand new appeal launches from The Sun on Sunday. We are delighted to partner with The...

Today, I am hosting a parliamentary reception on behalf of Together for Short Lives – the UK charity for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. The event is part of the charity’s campaign to secure an around the clock service...

My name is Lucy Watts and I am 22 years old. I have a life-limiting/life-threatening form of a condition called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. I spend a lot of time in hospital, but I want to be supported in the community, in...